Raisin Posted May 16 Member ID: 1844 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 5 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 102 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 122 Achievement Points: 1052 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Thursday at 06:35 AM Birthday: 08/27/1973 Device: Windows Posted May 16 Fresh install from OG disk. Patched. Placed my saved profile into Profiles folder. Played on Sunday night with no issues. Now go to play today and when I launch the game it wants me to create a new profile in order to play. 3 thing in my profile Folder: Looks like the $$$ Folder is what the game thinks is my profile for whatever reason. I've tried changing that folder name to my my profile and dropping the contents of my actual profile into it with no luck. I also changed the Active txt file to Raisin as well. Relaunched game. Shows my name in upper right background after it launches while at the same time asking me to create a profile. It's an endless loop. Cannot figure out how to get it to work again. This make no sense. I literally played multiple maps after relaunching the games multiple times on Sunday. Any help appreciated. Awards
Raisin Posted May 16 Member ID: 1844 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 5 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 102 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 122 Achievement Points: 1052 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Thursday at 06:35 AM Birthday: 08/27/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted May 16 Ok guys. So I figured it out just not sure why it happened. Turns out my registry did not have the CDkey string. I had to create it and add my key. Delete the $$$ folder and update the active folder to profile name. Relaunched game and it worked. "codkey"="CDKEY" ShaunZAR, Hoth, BlackRose and 3 others 6 Awards
NorCal_Jared Posted May 19 Member ID: 29546 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 4 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 55 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 76 Achievement Points: 500 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/09/22 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 06:24 AM Device: Windows Posted May 19 (edited) Oy, this happened to me a few months back and what triggered it was me opening steam and doing things there. It ended up cooking my normal game that I play from an OG game copy, nixing my cdkey, like what happened to you. I don't know what Steam does when you open it, but it changed stuff in my normal game folders. I had to google it and get into the registry to update the key code like you did. I saw someone talking about locking folders so they couldn't be overwritten by other programs, but perhaps that'd screw up playing the game normally, because it'd need to be written to then as well. I don't know, I'm just not wanting to open Steam now to do anything because it screwed my game up so much. When I fixed it, modded stuff came all back, but the normal stuff didn't return. I could upload a backup I have somewhere of my stuff, but I just don't play much on non-modded servers. Glad you figured it out Raisin! Edited May 19 by NorCal_Jared Added info on locking cd keys, point #3 major-mark63 and E-raser 2 Awards
jointz Posted May 19 Member ID: 4476 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 28 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1562 Content Per Day: 0.32 Reputation: 4464 Achievement Points: 19866 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 69 Joined: 12/24/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 18 hours ago Birthday: 03/31/1982 Device: Android Posted May 19 No matter what I did I could never get my disk copy to work after updating to windows 7 way back then. So I ended up having to buy the steam copy.. I have tried several times since and never ended up working.. still have it but I gave up hope for cd copies lol loaderXI 1 Awards
major-mark63 Posted May 20 Member ID: 23233 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 26 Topic Count: 67 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3633 Content Per Day: 0.92 Reputation: 2708 Achievement Points: 29371 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 09/10/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: 11 hours ago Birthday: 08/11/1963 Device: Windows Posted May 20 15 hours ago, jointz said: No matter what I did I could never get my disk copy to work after updating to windows 7 way back then. So I ended up having to buy the steam copy.. I have tried several times since and never ended up working.. still have it but I gave up hope for cd copies lol Got original CD , I did backed-up my profiles and also all mods and user maps from app data / local/activision and it worked from W7 to W10 and from W10 to W11. And also im still backing -up every three months if game crash, but crashed occured lot more on W7 back then. Awards
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