Dawn of War - Winter Assault (A Working Way No CD)

[MakaveliKeith]

1. i have no Alcohol 120% installed

2. i have mounted it with DaemonTools

3. all emulation options are disabled (the daemontools icon is red)

4. My real DVD/CD drive is empty

5. ive tested it on 4 pc's and it doesn't work :/

[caki]

Hello all,

Yesterday the game cafe I hang out at got 2 new computers. We installed DOW:WA off of a burned backup cd, and then mounted the mini image and ran it. For some reason, it didn't work. Then, we inserted the original CD, ran the game, exited, and then ejected the original, mounted the mini image once again, and the mini images works. It seems that you have to run the game once with the original CD before the mini image can function. Probably a feature of the protection...

Anyways, just telling you guys what I found

-rendari.

[BeatPirate]

use antiblaxx 116 and the modified exe and you have no probs with this game

[Mkilbride2599]

I can't find the cd check thing in my main DoW folder, even did a full system check...

and anti-blaxx has done nothing but **** my system up.

[Ethain]

I am trying to run Winter Assault on Windows x64, but it hangs once loaded. Initially event log said that tandpl.sys was being blocked as it is not supported on Winx64, so I renamed the file so it is inaccessible. I am guessing it is part of the copy protection system, as the game still doesn't work.

I don't particularly care about running without the original CD (as I have it right here in front of me)... I just want to be able to run it at all. I registered with the official website from the game, and despite saying they respond within 24 hours I've heard squat.

Is it a copy prevention system causing this? If so why are they so naff by not supporting software that early adopters (e.g. high spenders) are likely to use?

So far Microsoft official support have been equally slow, but I expect that.

[caki]

If its a .sys its prolly the copy protection, since the game doesnt need to run in ring0 :P. Unless of course, the programmers are crazy ASM coders, but even then it would take YEARS lol.

[sim_t_s]

Greetings from Germany!

Mount fixed DOW image with Daemon Tools (no emu)
Mount DOW WA CD1 Image with Daemon Tools (no emu, Image created with Blindwrite mount bwt file)
Delete disk1check (or rename)

This works fine for me with version 1.4 DOW

:-) Simon

[pf2004]

I have tried many times with mini image but still don't work.
My game is pirate copy!!!
How to make to bwi and do what maxtrox say

but if you have no cd patch is better

[dommi83]

well, i did the task as maxtor described it - only with a small difference, so i am gonna repeat what i've done:

- installed & patched DoW, installed WA
- renamed "Disk1Check.EXE" to "Disk1Check OLD.EXE" (this only works if installation is completely finished! ye have to wait till it tried to start once, but better don't insert the original CD, just let it tell ye "no disc inserted" or whatever, coz this will speed up the whole process, if ye dont have to start the game. i have recieved the message "WA is corrupt. Please reinstall DoW and WA" or something - ignore this, don't reinstall!)
- DLed the ALCOHOL-mini instead of the DAEMON-mini (so 30MB instead of 5MB)
- installed DAEMON (used the link on gamecopyworld.com)
- rebooted (necessary for DAEMON)
- when having rebooted, right-clicked DAEMON --> Emulation --> All options OFF
- right-clicked DAEMON --> Virtual CD/DVD-ROM --> Device 0: [X:] No Media --> Mount image ; then i chose the WH40KWA-MINI.BWT to be mounted
--> started the game with the W40kWA.exe (NOT with WinterAssault.exe!)

well, then my graphics setup had to be configured and i entered the game.
there was no problem.

thanks for the hints, cye folks

[hokaneko]

Install Dawn of War
Apply v1.01 Patch.
Apply v1.10 Patch.
Apply v1.20 Patch.
Apply v1.30 Patch.
Apply v1.40 Patch.
Install Winter Assault
Mount WA1.mdf (5355KB from gamecopyworld.com)
Play the game.

[inside_black]

If you can't find the disk1chec.exe in the main folder turn on show all hidden files and folders in the folder options window under the view tab