Stronghold 2 Mini image

[Xeticus]

Went and bought the game. Thanks for you efforts Crossmr, it's appreciated.

Xeticus

[crossmr]

No worries it was as much for me as it was for anyone else. I'm a little ticked that its suddenly not working, now I have to keep a backup clone instead of a tiny mini-image until I configure out what the heck it was that I did that allowed this.
Now that Uaservice7 has been tested and found not to be the catalyst its back to the drawing board to see if I've changed anything else on my PC since I last ran it. I don't recall anything though, it had been a quiet few days on my machine. No mucking in the registry and no utilities installed or removed.
I did run my spyware scanner, but it didn't detect anything except a backweb-lite service from my logitech mouse.
I can't see that affecting it.

[dj teac]

Why need Mini Image ?
Ok Mini Image is nice because it doesn't take much space, but for me the Clone Version from Carbon works perfectly mountet in Daemon tools, without No-CD Patch.

I just mounted the Second Image, if game detects DTools just use "Anti-Blaxx" and it can't detect D-Tools.
Sometimes you gotta start, then it says Wrong CD, and then start again, maybee thats because Anti Blaxx needs some seconds to start working, but the game is faster

[crossmr]

space is mainly the reason. If you keep 5 games installed and have clones for all of them, thats about 4.2 GB. More if any of those games are clones of DVDs (could be up to 20+gb)
Where with mini-images you're looking at a few mb.

[mpapad]

Originally Posted by crossmr

space is mainly the reason. If you keep 5 games installed and have clones for all of them, thats about 4.2 GB. More if any of those games are clones of DVDs (could be up to 20+gb)
Where with mini-images you're looking at a few mb.

Buy a bigger harddrive!
Or use your originals.

[crossmr]

Not always an option for some people. We're trying to do something here to help other people, however they may want to do it.

[dj teac]

Originally Posted by mpapad

Buy a bigger harddrive!
Or use your originals.

Yeah and what if they use a Notebook like me ?
I got a 100GB in there but most Notebookusers will have about 40GB and those 2,5 HDD are damn expensive...

And yeah the Space safed with a Mini Image is really a good reason for it
Btw i installed it today on my Other PC and have tried your Mini-Image, for the first start after the Installation it worked ( with Anti-Blaxx to hide D-Tools )
But the other times it didn't work

Maybee im to stupid or maybee my PC wants to piss me off

[nemesis.x]

crossmr, could you explain how to make a SecuROM mini-image. I know it isn't easy like making a Safedisc MI, and I need to make MI's of some other SecuROM games.

edit: well I figured out how to get Alcohol to not report it as an invalid image when I shrink it. how can I determine which files securom checks?