typhon Posted October 30, 2004 Report Share Posted October 30, 2004 I had UC and was playing for a while when I broke the CD, In it self that was bad enough however I scoured the shops and was unable to obtain another copy, it now a month on and I went into game thismorning and there where three copies on the shelf , oh the relief I grabbed a copy it was under offer 19 pounds sterling or 2 games for 30 quid, fantastic bought it and got home. The question is having done that should I uninstall the old UC and reinstall this new one? also should I register this version as the old version is defunct now or should I use a new login ? [ 10-30-2004, 11:06 AM: Message edited by: Cmdr Chavik ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typhon Posted October 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2004 Having just read my own post I find it is not very clear and could have used a spellchecker, I do not apear to be able to edit it mind it has been a while since I posted here. any way to clarify I broke my UC cdrom , I bought another one, should I have registered that in my old profile, to late now as i have done this just wondered if that was the right thing to do. I decided on a full system rebuild as it was about due so I have reinstalled the OS and updated, now I am just going to reinstall UC and the 2 patches so I no longer need to know if it would have worked with a cdrom that would have had a different Reg number then the origanal it wasz installed from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted October 30, 2004 Report Share Posted October 30, 2004 You need to register it as a new copy. And yes, you should following the instructions in the FAQ to uninstall the existing copy and start from scratch with the new copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typhon Posted October 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2004 Thanks , all done brand new install of Win XP with sp2 after a format of the hard drive so it is all nice, fast and clean. I was going to wait untill HTL came out but just could not do it the need to play was to much . filled in new registration should all be done now filling in the system details made me think I may need to upgrade my system soon . I noticed a few text alignment problems which apear to be driven by the screen res I have set, also it is very dark when I planet fall in a craft, but I am sure I remember all this from past threads of the G4 cards so a quick search will sort me out there. On a very upbeat note I forgot to mention, I had a hard time getting the game again from the local shop ( game ) and they where telling me that there has been a lot of intrest in the game of late they had 10 copies in on friday morning and there where three when I bought it at ten today. I also had a few friends at work moaning that XBTF was a bit repetative and lacked depth , they have now been converted to the ways of UC I love this game always have , I still have the very first BC cdrom and manual. I have always thought as a project this was an incredible undertaking, I take my hat off to you. I love the new patch features. keep up the fantastic work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typhon Posted November 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 A discovery I have made , I searched for this but did not find it so thought I would post it incase it is useful to know. After a fresh install of windows I confed my screen res to 1280X1024 and installed Uc , I found on a lot of screens the text was out side of boxes and in the wrong place. at first I thought this was the screen config and set out to work out what it was, It turns out that in XP when you open the advanced properties there is a setting called DPI , it can be set at teh default 96 or 120 , I had set this to 120 to make the text clear on the windows desktop, I now know it also makes a mess of the fonts in some programs, I set it back to the default and the text in the game is as it should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartmanbeeps Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 Ummmm. how exactly did you "break" you copy of UC. Ive had software from the late 80's and not one is bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spindoktor Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Cartmanbeeps: Ummmm. how exactly did you "break" you copy of UC. Ive had software from the late 80's and not one is bad. Ever put a CD in your microwave for fun? With something you don't want though, like that Captain and Tenneile's Greatest Hits CD you don't want to admit you have. Its a cool effect, and most definitely one busted CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Cartmanbeeps: Ummmm. how exactly did you "break" you copy of UC. Ive had software from the late 80's and not one is bad. Wot a silly question. He sat on it of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typhon Posted November 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 What happend was my cdrom started taking the cd into the drive when i had not got the cd in place and it scratched/scored it very badly, any way I had heard you could get thsi sort of thing to work by polishing the cd , well i pressed a bit to hard and that was the end of that. by the way on the CD in a micorwave thing, the fractals look very good however I found some time ago that if you but the cd in a bowl of water fist you can nuke it for longer and get even better paterns, ther is a web site out there some place of pictures of this but it was a long time ago I looked at it , lots of fun though. I get vast amounts of solaris CD's sent to me so I use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typhon Posted November 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 I am bad this should have been in the support question fourm having looked, Given the cd thing it should now be in the misc or generic chat section. sorry guys please move if needs be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartmanbeeps Posted November 1, 2004 Report Share Posted November 1, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Spindoktor: quote:Originally posted by Cartmanbeeps: Ummmm. how exactly did you "break" you copy of UC. Ive had software from the late 80's and not one is bad. Ever put a CD in your microwave for fun? With something you don't want though, like that Captain and Tenneile's Greatest Hits CD you don't want to admit you have. Its a cool effect, and most definitely one busted CD. Ah. Yea. i saw something on that on techtv's screensavers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekulturny Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Ive done that with games no1 wanted and that gamestop wouldnt buy like cruudy ultra bad graphics flight sims (DIE FLGIHT SIM BETA 1.01) MWHAHAHAHAHAH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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