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Colin McRae Rally Question

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John

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Dec 28, 2005, 10:32:14 AM12/28/05
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Is there a way around the disk loader....

When I put the CD in it says "Wrong operating system" and
won't proceed any further....

Previously it worked on my machine before I got Windows XP

John

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Dec 29, 2005, 5:36:11 AM12/29/05
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Tim O

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Dec 29, 2005, 4:35:31 PM12/29/05
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On 29 Dec 2005 12:40:59 GMT, Walter Mitty <mitt...@gmail.com> wrote:

> "John" risked the wrath of Usenet weenies mastering
> mommies computer when he ventured forth on 2005-12-29, commmitted
> his life to the whims of Google, and spluttered:

>try providing more information .eg
>
>1) What version of CMR?
>2) What version of windows did you have on your machine before XP?
>3) Do all your other games work?
>
>It doesnt sound like a video issue. Sounds more like a corrupt cd.

I'm thinking its the first Colin McRae since he didn't specify, and it
sounds like an autorun issue. Old Sierra Online games used to do this
too. The workaround was just to explore the CD and run setup.
The autorun does an OS check, and if it's anything other than Win95 or
98, it gives you that error. Hopefully, you can just push past it in
this game (Codemasters?).

Tim

John

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Dec 29, 2005, 11:48:59 PM12/29/05
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Hi Walter Mitty

The first Colin McRae game. It keeps saying "wrong OS" when I
try to run it...... I am going to explore the CD and see what happens
when I just run the setup file........ Maybe even get a nocd hack
going for this.....


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Rikard Peterson

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Dec 30, 2005, 2:40:35 AM12/30/05
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"John" wrote in news:43B2AFFE...@internode.on.net:

Try XP's compability settings. There you can tell Windows to pretend
that it's an earlier version for games foolish enough go give such
errors. Right click on the shortcut and choose Properties. The dialogue
you get contains a compability tab. Check the box for compability mode
for Windows 95.

Rikard

John

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Jan 4, 2006, 9:16:55 AM1/4/06
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Hi good folks of these groups

I tried the suggestion of the XP compatibility wizard and
set it to Windows 98 and the game played perfectly......

Yes I know it was an obvious solution and I should well have
noticed that myself but I overlooked that when I set up the
shortcut on the desktop... I should have noticed it then and there
in the properties panel but failed to...

Thankyou anyways.

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