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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Download link for the .net framework.
Given the races are on the disk, seems a little cheap to make people install other games in order to play them. Why all this hassle just to enjoy a game?
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I GOT IT...I LOVE U GUYS!!!!!!!!
Question: I ran the unlocker and input all my CD keys w/o difficulty. However, while all the races are now present SS still asks me for my DoW CD key when I start skirmish. Trying to input the CD key results in an "invalid CD key" message but just cancelling the CD key request allows me to continue w/skirmish w/o difficulty. It's only a very minor inconvenience but is there a way to stop this constant asking for the DoW CD key?
Tomac
My first guess would be a typo mistake. If no version of DoW was installed, BEFORE you installed SS and THEN ran the Unlocker, try running the Unlocker again and take care of the spelling and also do not forget to add the dashes.Originally Posted by Tomac
But honestly I don't believe the part with "asking for cd-key when i start skirmish".
Soulstorm asks for the keys, when you start the game, not after clicking on skirmish (which lets you play all races by default anyway).
Hey Belial2003,
I just saw your post in a different thread where it was being recommended, and it seems like a nice program.
But!.. (There's always a but) when I start Soulstorm after I typed in the keys in the unlocker, I see the 2-3 commercial thingy for the companies that made it, then a loading screen with big fat letters "SOULSTORM" etc.. Then it just closes the application with no warning after that screen, it turns black a second and then it closes.
Any ideas?
I just checked the other replies where I added "/" at the end etc, didn't work.
Another thing (updated):
My registry looks a bit odd considering the Dark Crusade folder,
CDKEY
InstallLocation
orig_CDKEY
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What bothers me is taht both the CDKEY and the orig_CDKEY are identical, not sure if it matters or not?
@Hesselberg
no idea where that org_Key came from, you may try to delete the registry directories for Classic and DC and run the unlocker again.
As for your problem with Soulstorm shutting down, remove your crack or get a better one (and YES, I'm serious about that. The first crack released for the game, causes Sousltorm to shut down before entering the main menu)
This only started happening after I used your unlocker ?
Update:
After I deleted all the registry directories your unlocker made, it worked fine, or at least only SS did.
Then I tried using the unlocker again, and then the "no-warning-shutdown-of-game" came back.
Some feedback would be nice
Some infos about your system, and your registry entries would be nice too as my crystall ball doesn't work properlySome feedback would be nice
If you have ICQ contact me pls.
Nice work, Belial2003! You saved a bunch a guys a lot of time!
Its not working for me. It will unlock DC but not DoW and WA. No other versions are installed and I am positive both keys are legit (I also tried a 2nd set of legit keys). When i start the game after using the unlocker it prompts me for my DoW CD-Key, I give it the CD-Key and it says its invalid.
Typo or forgotten dashes?
No sir, I've literally done them about 5 times a piece and proofed them all. I even had a 2nd set of keys i tried that were my friends (just trying to unlock it for a LAN). Ive also tried going into the registry and enter it in manually and thats a no go. This is on Vista with SP1.
As SP1 for Vista is kinda brand new, it's quite possible, that it won't work. Will test it, as soon as i can update one of my computers.
Sry i can't help you atm.
Thanks martyr and belial and the people who made the various unlockers, I can't remember which one I used in the end.
It now works
Just installed SP1 on my Vista Business 32bit, the Unlocker works without any issues here (I uninstalled Soulstorm, cleaned the registry, deleted the install directory and then reinstalled it).
Works fine here, thank ya.
worked fine here on Vista X64 SP1, thanks
Could anyone post how the registry of a clean Soulstorm install looks with the added keys? (without other addons)? Belial's program complains about unable to convert some RegistryKey to a string. I tried manually tinkering with the registry, to no avail. I reverted my changes but am unsure how the registry should look like. Thanks in advance.
@Belial: This is the error I'm getting:
System.InvalidCastException: Cannot convert object of type Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind to type System.String.
at SSRaceUnlocker.Codebitch.getInstallLocation()
~Vox.
P.S. Codebitch?
Last edited by Vox1982; 31st Mar 08 at 4:22 AM.
Codebitch is the name of the class, which does the actual work apart from the GUI
As for the info with the registry, which OS are you using (and did you start the app with admin rights)?
.NET Framework (at least 2.0) installed?
This is how the registry should look like on WinXP and Vista (32 bit Versions) after you exported it.
InstallLocation varies of course. And all values are simple strings, nothing special.Code:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ\Dawn of War] "CDKEY"="key of classic" "InstallLocation"="D:\\Programme\\THQ\\Dawn of War - Soulstorm\\" "CDKEY_WXP"="key of wa" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ\Dawn of War - Dark Crusade] "CDKEY"="key of dc" "InstallLocation"="D:\\Programme\\THQ\\Dawn of War - Soulstorm" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ\Dawn of War - Soulstorm] "CDKEY"="key of ss" "InstallLocation"="D:\\Programme\\THQ\\Dawn of War - Soulstorm" "W40KCDKEY"="key of classic" "WXPCDKEY"="key of WA" "DXP2CDKEY"="key of DC"
If you are using a 64bit Version, the overall registry path looks like this:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\THQ\....]
Hi Belial, thanks for the quick reply.
I am using Vista (32-bit) and using .NET 2.0. I did run the app as admin.
I'll try configuring my registry as above.
Btw, what language did you write this app in? C#?
yep, c#. Somewhere in this thread I posted, where the sources are located for download, if you are interested.
edit: update your .NET Framework, recent version is already 3.5 iirc.
Ok, I'm silly. I have the .NET framework 3.5 installed, so I don't think it's a version issue. I printed a System.Environment.Version on Visual Studio 2005 Professional and it printed version 2.0, which is due to the fact that the CLR only uses features present in .NET 2.0 I believe. I'll probably upgrade to 2008 soon anyways
Edit: iirc all Vista versions come with .NET 3.0 installed
Edit2: I'm guessing my issues are caused by the fact that I wasn't using escape characters in my InstallLocation path, I assumed the strings were verbatim. Anyhoo, also in your .reg file sometimes your installpath has trailing backslashes (in the first case, whereas in the second and third case it does not).
"InstallLocation"="D:\\Programme\\THQ\\Dawn of War - Soulstorm\\"
vs.
"InstallLocation"="D:\\Programme\\THQ\\Dawn of War - Soulstorm"
Last edited by Vox1982; 1st Apr 08 at 3:08 AM.
Hi,
I got a friend who installed Framwork 2.0 on her Windows XP Computer in order to use this SS Unlock.
But now she get this message when she run SS Unlock : "unable fo find a version of the runtime to run this application"
Got an idea to help us ?
Last edited by Zakyrel; 1st Apr 08 at 3:08 AM.
can some one help me, whenever i try to run the program i get this message:
"Access to registry key "HKEY _LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ\Dawn of War" is denied"
thanks in advance
I haven't got the original installed but have DC installed
Ive also never used a race unlocker before its just ive lost my CDs but found the old CD key on Regedit so i can input it
Perhaps you need to run it with Administrator priviliges?
I think that it it needs .Net 3.5. Download it here:But now she get this message when she run SS Unlock : "unable fo find a version of the runtime to run this application"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
i did run it with admin privelages but it still doesn't work
Are you on Vista64? I know there are some problems with the registry path on that.
no, vista32
Try to remove the backslashes for the InstallLocation of Classic and start Soulstorm. It will tell you, that Classic is not correctly installed (the backslash is made fully intentional)
Btw Visual Studio 2008 is quite nice, dunno if it's my computer, but it seems to start up a LOT faster, also compiling seem to take less time.
These problems have been removed in version 1.1
@Sully
Uninstall DC, reinstall Soulstorm, try again (and don't forget to start the unlocker with right-click-> run as admin)
@Zakyrel
Turn on Windows Update, there is no reason to have it off. So you can get the most recent version of the .NET Framework.
Thanks for this.
So how do I send you beer?
kk it input the keys for me but now i have to type them in on soulstorm and it comes up with invalid keys even though i know these ones aren't
EDIT: Nevermind, i typed the key wrong into the program but fixed it so thanks belial
Last edited by Sully; 2nd Apr 08 at 1:59 AM.
What race is being unlocked with the race unlocker?
#134
Necrons and Tau if you have a valid Dark Crusade CD key
Imperial Guard if you have a valid Winter Assault CD key
Orks, Space Marines, Eldar and Chaos if you have a valid Dawn of War CD key
All the above if you have all 3.
-It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end (Douglas Adams)-
-Make something idiot proof and nature will create a better idiot.-
-Me fail English? That's unpossible!-
Not really afaik. It is not possible to unlock IG and the classic races not, as WA is no stand-alone like DC.
Thanks for your help so far, Belial. Haven't got it working yet, but I won't stop till it does
I have dow, wa, and dc on cds.. ss from direct to drive... it wont allow me to enter dc as it says game is corrupt... will this help with that?
Only thing you need, is a freshly installed Soulstorm and the CD-Keys from the old DoWs, nothing else, the Unlocker should do the rest.
Hi thanks for this but i got a problem... i got all the dow games and all the keys and cds. I use your program and type the keys but it says there all invalid when i know there not and i tried what you said earier and put " in so it is like this "1232-dhgf-fhgd-hytf" (example) but it still wont work any ideas?
Hello,
Im getting the error: Could not find file'\GraphicsConfig.exe'.
Details tell me:
Details
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file '\GraphicsConfig.exe'.
File name: '\GraphicsConfig.exe'
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.InternalCopy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
at SSRaceUnlocker.Codebitch.RegWriter()
at SSRaceUnlocker.GUI.button1_Click_1(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
Soulstorm Race Unlocker
Assembly Version: 1.1.3.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.3.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Rettie/Desktop/DoW%20reinstall%20temp/Soulstorm%20Race%20Unlocker.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
Accessibility
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Accessibility/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Accessibility.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
For example:
<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
So my next step is?
What OS do you use?
OS: Windows XP sp2
I have seen some 1 say something about .NET 3.0, but i have got it working on an other system. The difference between these to systems is that the working system also has .NET 1.1 + the 1.1 hotfix installed.
Im going to test it now and post if it will work.
Do you have any wise advise? Ow, and nice works on the program. I have made a DC unlocker, so i know how much fun it is
hmm, minimum requirement on Framework version is 2.0 i think.
Is your XP 32 or 64 bit version, 'cause there is probably a bug in the app since Unlocker v1.1, but i am not sure, as i don't have an XP 64 to test it.
If reinstalling Soulstorm changes nothing, you may try the old version here, and if this works, my suspicion would be confirmed as well (so please tell me of the outcome).
framework 3.0 contains all of 2.0 classes, so it isn't an issue. try my version. retested with all checks and all OS including Vista 64 SP1 and XP SP3
Hey, thanks for the help so far
I can only upload a file after clicking on the download button on http://www.file-upload.net/download-72044 ??? what am i doing wrong? ps: this is not the first year on the internets
-------------EDIT-------------
GOOGLE POWA!
Is this your old version? http://www.dutch-boy.com/DoW/
If so, you old version works. What is your idea on this? if i may ask.
Please help me!! It's says soulstorm race unlocker has encountered a problem and needs to close.We are sorry for inconvenience. please help!!!!!!! when i use the program
@ZenD
your link is incomplete, dunno how you managed to do that.
http://www.file-upload.net/download-...ocker.rar.html
(hope you see it this time *g*)
@robert.petrache
Some more details on the error message, your OS and Version of your .NET Framework pls.
@Belial2003
The outcome is, YES it works. Hope this helps youyou may try the old version here, and if this works, my suspicion would be confirmed as well (so please tell me of the outcome).
i already edited my first post and added the old version.
I'm aware of the cause of troubles, but too thirsty to fix it.
lack of beer, u know
I had the same config.exe error using the 1.1 unlocker. I have WinXP 32 bit with SP2. I tried the old version posted by GIT - post #144 (have not tried the old version posted by Belial2003) and I just confirmed it works. Many thanks to everyone for this discussion.
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