Hi all
After purchasing and installing UC yesterday I had a frustrating time in trying to get the game to locate the CD-ROM. I tried applying the patches as per the Tech Support FAQ, and also tried the SafeDisc patch found at:
http://www.macrovision.com/products/safedisc/downloads.shtml
I tried uninstalling and re-installing numerous times from both of my CD-ROM drives and to different install paths, all to no avail. After reading over the following Microsoft article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;228985
I found the solution to be method 7. Changing the transfer mode of the primary channel of my ATA controller (in the WinXP device manager) from default/DMA mode to PIO mode solved the problem.
I am wondering if this has anything to do with my having a SATA hardrive and so my ATA controller primary channel is a CD-ROM drive instead of usual hardrive.
Here are my system specs:
Computer make/model: Custom
Motherboard make/model: Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro2
Processor type/speed: Athlon Barton 2500+
Hardrive: Maxtor 80GB SATA drive
Memory type/amount: DDR PC3200 512MB (1 stick)
CD-Rom type/speed: Creative 52x and TDK VeloCD 24/10/40x
Sound card make/model: RealTek ALC650 NVidia nForce Audio CODEC (on m/b)
Video card make/model: PNY NVidia GeForce4 Ti4400
Video card memory: 128MB
Mouse type: Logitech MX310 Optical
Internet connection: LAN
Desktop color depth: 32bit
Operating system: WinXP Pro
DirectX version: 9.0b
Videocard driver version: 6.14.10.5303
Soundcard driver version: 6.14.362.6
I hope this info helps anyone else out there who experiences this problem...and thanks to Tech Support for taking the time on the weekend to help me.
JT
[ 04-03-2004, 10:31 AM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]
