game will not start, although CD spins.

[Warlawk]

i installed dow, and played it with no issues for a few weeks. then had my CD drive die, so i installed it on my second computer untill i got a new drive in the main comp.

after installing the new drive on the main computer, Sony CD-RW CRX230ED 52X read...... the cd will spin, it registers as being in the drive, game is fully installed still and i can explore the contents of the CD, autoplay brings up the menu properly.

when i try to run the game, from the desktop icon, autoplay menu, programs menu etc, the CD will start to spin, then spin slower, then stop. no error message pops up, nothing at all happens, DOW never appears in teh windows task manager list, CPU useage doesnt spike..... simply nothing.

any help would be much appreciated.

EDIT: if anyone can direct me to an official tech support resource i would be most appreciative, since i ahvent seen ANYTHING for dow... just for the other THQ games.

[Moe]

There should be an URL in your readme.

Other than that, this sounds like a securom issue, I'd suggest you contact their tech support as well.
DoW is protected by a mechanism called SecuRom which is supposed to prevent you from making copies of the game. That thing doesn't really work as planned though, and appears to have issued with some CD drives. See if you maybe find a firmware update for the drive?

[doomfrog]

actually I'm haveing the same problem and my harware never changed.... I have actualy uninstalled the game out of fustration (with the hopes a reinstall will make all better)... worked fine and when would get past the auto run screen cd spins a bit then... nothing no errors or anything.

[Moe]

Can you check in your Dawn of War directory for a file called warnings.log? If there is one, please post the contents here.

[Warlawk]

W40K started at 2005-02-16 19:56
OS NT 5.1, 512MB Physical Memory
RUN-OPTIONS
WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War
USER Jeremy Potter

19:56:57.1 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=INTEL Pentium-IV:f=15,m=2, Mode=SSE
19:56:57.1 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'engine\data\'
19:56:57.1 GAME -- Failed to aliased engine data folder
19:56:57.1 AppInitGlobal -- Failed load for step: ''

Application closed without errors

[ÜberJumper]

Hmmmm Reinstall.

[Moe]

That sounds weird... you could try doing a clean reinstall (use the uninstaller first and after it has finished delete the DoW folder manually, then reinstall from scratch).

[Scumbag509]

When Securom is the culprit, are we allowed to suggest ways to bypass the flaw?

[kyanh]

Hi
I have exactly same problem that i can not launch the game from CD. Here is the warning list file. I did reinstall the game and play for a bit then I put other DVD music in the CD and after that I can't launch WoW anymore
Please help.

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W40K started at 2005-03-11 23:30
OS NT 5.1, 1024MB Physical Memory
RUN-OPTIONS
WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War
USER Don

23:30:15.6 PLATFORM -- Duplicate instance of app
23:30:15.6 APP -- The Application Failed to Initialize the Platform Window
23:30:15.6 AppInitGlobal -- Failed load for step: ''

Application closed without errors

[Kurai]

i had the same problem, but it corrected itself after i reinstalled it.