Help me please!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Agent Larkin]

I recently got alien crossfire and i installed it but when i clicked play the menu would pop up asking which version to play and i would click AX and then nothing would happen no matter how long i left it for. So then i went and installed the patch and now it shows the alien ship start up screen but tells me i need the right CD even though i have a complete installation and the CD in the disk drive can someone help me please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Darsnan]

I recently got alien crossfire and i installed it but when i clicked play the menu would pop up asking which version to play and i would click AX and then nothing would happen no matter how long i left it for.

First question: do you have more than one disk drive? The reason I'm asking is that the game remembers which drive it was installed from, and looks for the disk there. If your putting the disk in a different disk drive that what it was installed from, then that could explain what your experiencing.

Second question: have you read thru the FAQ thread thats topped in this forum? There are several situations listed there that sound similar to this, along with solutions.

Also, if the above doesn't fix your problem, then let us know along with everything else you've tried to date. There'll be others along shortly who can probably come up with other solutions as well.

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[Agent Larkin]

Thank you for the reply

Thank you for the speedy reply and to answer the questions i have read the FAQ's but nothing worked and while i do have two disc drives one of them is a virtual drive so i didn't install it through that.

[Petek]

It seems to me that the problem isn't with the game, but rather with the CD or the CD drive. Can you read the SMAX CD from Windows Explorer? If not, can you read other CDs?

Petek

[Agent Larkin]

The CD also works fine apart from the erroe -117 during installation but i got around that by making it an ISO.

[Petek]

The CD also works fine apart from the erroe -117 during installation but i got around that by making it an ISO.

If the error message was similar to move data process error -117, then your CD is at fault. I can't find the prior threads on this error message, but your system is having trouble reading your CD. Does the shiny side have any scratches or marks? If you hold it up to the light, can you see through it anywhere? You might try cleaning the disc.

HTH

Petek

[Agent Larkin]

There are no scratches or anything on the CD and as i said the installation process went fine when converted to ISO format. I'm also trying a proverbial "Plan B" which should work.

[Mart]

As far as I know, ACX has Safedisc version 1 copy protection. Iso format probably will not work.

[Agent Larkin]

Well i tried my plan B which was a crack and it worked so now the game works fine so i'd like to say thanks to the speedy help i got.

[vyeh]

Agent Larkin,

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you temporarily remove your crack and try copying the terranx.exe file from the CD to the proper location on your hard drive and see if that fixes the problem.

This was the solution Petek suggested last July.

It would be a great help to us because we can't advocate using a crack on these boards. If you could verify that copying the terranx.exe file from the CD to your hard drive fixes your problem, then we could put your problem and the solution in the FAQ at the top of the list.

[Agent Larkin]

That was actually what i did i'm sorry i refer to any backdoor method to do something as a crack.

[vyeh]

Great!

Sorry, it turns out that the problem was that the terranx.exe file was corrupted. Replacing it with an uncorrupted file, whether legal or illegal, fixes the problem.

Now that we have confirmation that it worked, we can put it in the FAQ since the problem has come up a few times.

[Petek]

vyeh,

Check your PMs.

Petek

[LoriTX]

In order to get it running on my new computer on Vista, I had to get a copy of terranx.exe off my Daughters computer. Once I put the file on my computer it started up just fine. I now have a copy of it, in case I have to install it again in the future.

[vyeh]

Petek,

I think LoriTX has confirmed that the terranx.exe file can become corrupt through the installation process and that copying from a working installation or the CD fixes the problem.