Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone has had this problem before:

I bought the collectors edition of the game the day it came out. Installed it and played it for a long time without a problem.

This weekend I had to do a destructive restore on my system and take it back to the way it was when I bought it about two years (custom built system: p4 3ghz, 1gb ram, 256meg Nvidia graphics). I replaced the graphics card with an ATI 9550 256meg series about a year ago and the game still ran fine. Since doing the restore I've run Windows XP autoupdate till there are no more updates including service pack 2. I've updated the graphics drivers to ATI's most current through their website (dated dec. 2006). The only thing that has changed is that I added a new DVD burner to the system that I bought this weekend -- a Mad Dog triple format lightscribe external unit.
I went to reinstall GC2, put the CD in the Mad Dog drive and the luancher came up. Clicked on "Install" and the drive started reading but nothing else happened. Checked the task manager after a few minutes while the drive light was still blinking and saw that the GC Launcher was not responding. Ended it, cleared the do you want to report to Microsoft message and then tried it again. Same thing. Tried it in the original internal DVD burner (a NEC unit) and the same thing happened. I also tried it in a third drive, a cheap internal CD Rom I installed for games which have problems with DVD burners, and the same thing happened again. I opened the disk contents folder and tried to bypass the launcher by running setup.exe directly and the same thing again.
I thought the disk might be damaged although I usually can't access the disk contects if the disk is damaged. Since I enjoy GC2 I went out this evening and bought a new copy of the game. Came home, put the first disk into the original NEC drive and same thing -- luancher comes up, click on "Install", disk light keeps blinking but the luancher quits responding and has to be ended in the task manager. All three dvd/cd drives same thing on the new disk.
I doubt both install disks from both copies of the game are bad but I don't know what might cause this problem. I've searched the forums and haven't seen where anyone else seems to have this problem.

Below is the information Windows XP wanted to send to microsoft if it means anything to anyone:


szAppName: GC2Launch.exe szApVer: 0.0.0.0 szModName: hungapp
szModVer: 0.0.0.0 offset: 00000000