Hi Quiksilver,

There are a few ideas that come to mind...

1. The new video card might be drawing too much juice.
Can your power supply provide enough wattage?

2. It's possible you have a bad disc.
Can you test the disc in another computer?

3. To see if it's a software conflict: Temporarily disable Startup
programs one at a time, starting with Firewall, Antivirus, and ad
blockers using this utility: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
or this method: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

You can lookup what a program does before you disable it here:
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

4. Do you have only one CD device in My Computer?
If you have any Virtual CD's installed, try removing them.


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Quiksilver Wrote:
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| Thanks for the advice Jimmy but I have done all that you have said and still
| get the same problem. It seems as if it will not play the DVD-rom after it is
| installed. If I leave it after double clicking on the desktop icon, the DVD
| drive goes dead, when it un freezes and I double click on my computer the DVD
| drive does not show up ( seems strange ) then i have to re-boot to get power
| to DVD drive working again. I have the latest updated drivers for my DVD
| drive. (DVD disk drive = IDE DVD\CD ROM drive 16x ) I can run other DVD games
| and DVD films ok.
|
| Is it something to do with the copy protection maybe ( Is a offical copy
| from a good retailer ) ?
|
| If it was the driver why does it install but will not run single player ?
|
| any other help would be brillent if you have any ideas. if not might have to
| get money back
|
| Thanks for you help
|
| Quiksilver
|
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Quiksilver,
||
|| Maybe there's a conflict with the previous demo. After you uninstall
|| both the demo and the full game (again), delete the installation directory,
|| the game directory found within your My Documents/My Games folder,
|| and then clean any lingering registry entries which may be left over using
|| a RegCleaner: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download460.html
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| __________________________________________________ _______
||
||
|| Quiksilver Wrote:
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||| After sorting a new graphics card so the demo would work, Santa gave me the
||| full game but......(after spending all xmas day trying to get it to run stil
||| no joy)
|||
||| Installs ok, then goes to desktop loads disk with "COD2" screen giving
||| options of single/multi player, links etc when you click on single player it
||| goes to desktop, egg timer comes up for 2 seconds then it just seems the
||| computer just hangs. I have to turn off ar power to re boot. If I just double
||| click on the single player desktop icon it says insert CD (which it is) or it
||| just stays on the desktop and crashes sometimes. I have tryed both disk
||| drives and get the same. I have also re-installed it a few times, but get the
||| same.
|||
||| The multi player works fine. This seems to not run off the disk
|||
||| System seem to meet requirements for game and everything is upto date and
||| running well.
|||
||| Anyone got any advice?
|||
||| Intel 2.66
||| 512 ram
||| geforce 6200 ( new but working with everything eles ok even other new games )
||| 16x DVD ROM Drive
||| 80GBHD ( with lots of free space)
||| DirectX 9c
|||
|||
||| thanks if you can help in advance
|||
||| Quiksilver (sry about posting but I have tryed everything I can think of)