Problem Installing

[EricC]

Every time I try to install, when it is installing "D3DDRV.DLL" it immedietly closes with this error, Does anybody know what to do???

Thanks!

ALSO: It works when my friend installs/plays on his computer.

I also run Windows XP with DirectX 9 if that matters.

[Snip3r]

:hmmm: :WTF:

[OUTLAWS The Machine]

Is that an original CD?

[»°ßåD«]

:hmmm: :WTF: :drink:

[EricC]

Yes, it is the original CD.

Here is a page I found where a guy has the same problem as me, http://www.gametalk.com/talk/pc/unreal_tou...03/55935453.htm (http://www.gametalk.com/talk/pc/unreal_tournament_2003/55935453.htm)

[Dissectional]

I can only imagine that your CD is scratched, dirty, or your CD-Rom is old and on the fritz. IF it works on your buddies, I would say it is your CD Rom. Do you have a burner or another CD drive you can slap in your PC?

[EricC]

Yeah I tried it on my DVD-rom drive, I can copy the file off of it onto my hard drive but when I try to run setup.exe with it then that messes up :bawling:

I don't think it is my CD-Rom drive though because it is pretty new(like a year old), and it has no problems with any other game.

[Death-Dude]

I don't think it is a 'driver thing' as the discussion thread mentioned, but there is an updated d3ddrv.dll, found here: Updated D3D driver for UT2K3 (ftp://tuubi51.adsl.netsonic.fi/official/ut2003/patches/win/UT2003-D3DDrv-110702.zip)
Always back up the original before overwriting, of course. Still, I don't think that's your problem. If you've installed it before, uninstall it, and delete the folder - if the file becomes 'write only' that could stop you. Still, I don't think that's it, either. I think Dis is right, it's a reading problem with the drive and/or the disk. I assume you have it very clean by now, and have tried all your drives, maybe your buddy would let you pull his out (the drive, I mean) and see if that will do it. I haven't had that happen with Retail CDs, but I have with user-mades, and they seem to like the burner drives better than straight CD-ROMs.

[EricC]

Yeah I can't get it to even install though, and I don't know of a way(if there is a way) to make it skip that file in the installation and just use that one.

I don't really want to play it bad enough to want to ask him to pull his cd rom drive out of his computer and let me use it either :)

Thanks for your help anyways though. :thumbs:

[Death-Dude]

One other thing you could try is a CD cleaner. They, purportedly, clean anything of the reader/light 'eye', helping it to read better.