CD error after patch

[Commissar Lauren]

I noticed some people were having trouble with their game no longer reading the CD after they had installed the Patch and wondered if this had ever been resolved, because I am having the same trouble. It runs fine if I dont install the patch and I purchased a perfectly legal copy from EBgames. I also ran into several problems while installing, but managed to work around them eventually. Any help would be appreciated

[Severous]

Hi Commissar

Welcome.

Sorry to see another person joining the board with a first post being about a problem.  Perhaps thats inevitable for a game forum - many new players going looking for  - and finding - this site in order to seek community assistance for a problem on a newly purchased game.

Sadly its a difficult one to help with.  I sense two camps -a) no problems and b) never solved.   I hardly remember my own install which was followed shortly after by the patch 1.2.  I dont recall problems.  At the time I had a fairly new computer with no previous version of Tropico (Trop1 nor Trop2 demo) anywhere near the system to confuse installation.

Yet as you say -  other posters have not been so fortunate.  

Maybe a complete uninstall and start again ? But I really cant talk from experience Im afraid.

If anyone is reading this and has recently got past this type of problem please please post......

[Vegetta]

I have this same problem  

I had a bear of a time getting the game to actually install and run (had to copy all of the files from cd1 to my hd but i had to install cd2 from the disk or the installation hungup at 100% during the readme file...

if i dont patch it the game runs fine ....

what makes this patch issue very strange is that i dont even need to have the cd in my machine to play the unpatched game (does the game even need the cd to run??)

[Sinastara]

Yeah... same problem here.   I had purchased the game some time back in December or January from Sams Club in Michigan. I had never played the demo, so it wasn't the problem. Its the same problem as everyone elses and still no new patch or help on their boards.

[E Strongblade]

I know this is an old topic but check out "help me out,will ya, please" by Tarther. I found out some stuff about Canadian discs through this site and a couple of others that I posted there today. C-Ya.