Dungeon Siege Troubles

[locutus]

Problems with BOTH single and multiplayer...

Cannot play single player game: CD 1 is not recognized,
even using the admin account; also installed MS fix for
Safedisc protection bug and installed the updated
secdrv.sys driver from the Macrovision site. No install
folders or driver files are/were encrypted.

Cannot play multiplayer game: immediate crash reporting
that DirectPlay8 cannot init, even without running
ZoneAlarm. Possible router issue with ports? I noticed
registry entries for both DirectPlay and DirectPlay8 WTF?

System Info: My copy is legit retail on WinXP Home with
all SPs and latest auto-update hotfixes. DXDIAG reports
no problems for my DirectX9b installation. SCSI Plextor
CD (1st drive after hard drives). DS is the first game
I've had trouble running since upgrading to XP (previous
OS was ME with which DS worked just fine). All good, top-
end hardware (Alienware), 1 Gb RAM, etc.

Someone please figure this out for me

 

[Chris H.]

One of the primary causes of this issue on the Home edition comes from Fast
User Switching being enabled. However, you may want to look through this
information: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;228985
Also, make sure you download and install the latest patch from
www.dungeonsiege.com .

 

[locutus]

Was this working at some point? Did you happen to install any new CD
burning software? If it was working, what have you changed and can you
revert back to a Restore Point in System Restore when it was functioning?
If not, I'd save your game files, uninstall and then reinstall Dungeon
Siege. You could have some corrupt files there.

I bought and played DS just fine on this very system when I had WinME
on it... Now, it's been a very long time since then, and I just
reinstalled from scratch under XP to install some siegelets and prep
for the expansion So, there's no plausible restore point to revert
to... CDR software? Yes, as a matter of fact, the demo for Nero 6
(which I don't like), but the CD-ROM is different than my recorder.

 

[Chris H.]

I would uninstall that CDR software. You can set a Restore Point, then
uninstall it, and see if DS runs okay. If you've still got the same
problem, go back to the Restore Point because it won't make a difference.
If it solves the issue, you leave that software uninstalled.