Cloudy Sky

I needed to reward myself and soothe my jangled nerves from all the stress I had. So I purchased S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky in advance. And today was the great day to set it up and stalk through the Zone once again. Oh, I love radiation!

EDIT: See below for some new insights about the critical start-up bug. Why me?!

But what the hell? Every time I try to start the game it wants me to insert the original DVD first. It is the original DVD, damnit! Some smarty pants on the forums across the web suggested reinstalling the copy protection but I don’t know how to do that or even what the copy protection is.

The ironic twist of this is the fact that I am forced to use a no DVD crack in order to play my totally legal purchase. It is my strong belief that all this copy-protection hassle only made everything harder for the average gamers and that there are no less pirate copies as if there were no protection at all – period!

I was busy on some forums and those are the weirdest ways people keep telling me on how to run the game:

1- Put disk in drive.
2- Dont click anything – wait for the windows message – run or open folders msg.
3- Close the message – what means dont choose any of the options, just click the “x”.
4- Wait some seconds and double click the game’s desktop shortcut to run CS.

I made this happen by Starting the game up well over 10 times in a row, so on the processes list there were loads of instances of the xrengine.exe running.
i then had to wait, in turn to click “Ok” on EVERY SINGLE one of their “please insert the original DVD” error windows.

This took a very very very long time, and at the end of it the final instance of the xrengine.exe started the game up.

I did some research myself and that’s what I have found out about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky‘s start-up bug:

• The European version uses the queer french Tagés copy-protection, the Russian version StarForce.
• This bug seems to happen often on Laptops with HD-DVD drives. My computer has a Toshiba HD-DVD drives, but with the lastest firmware.
• The Developers give a shit about the complaining community
• On GameCopyWorld are some No-DVD-cracks, however not for the latest patch, which seems to be critical because…
• …the game is said to be as buggy as a fresh copy of Windows ME

I’ll keep you up to date.

Looks like I am transforming to a grumpy nerd, because I have to be so angry and pissed all the time about a variety of topics. If you don’t like it: I hate you one and all — damn your eyes!

I needed to reward myself and soothe my jangled nerves from all the stress I had. So I purchased S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky in advance. And today was the great day to set it up and stalk through the Zone once again. Oh, I love radiation! EDIT: See below for some new insights about the ...

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