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Lt. Wispit
30th August 2009, 12:38 PM
Hey guys well me dad recently bought Empire Earth 2 the other day and recently had an issue with regards to attempting to play it. it goes like this:

When he puts the disk in the drive and goes to run the game it comes up with an error message of this:

Unable to authenticate original disk within time limit

my question is what on earth does that mean and how do you fix it?
My dad tried uninstalling it and when it came to the autorun part it asked if he wanted to play the game as if it was already installed. We bypassed this by just going into the cd itself and running the install exe.

Ive tried updating with a patch however the results have been the same with 2 different patches.
Telling me of being unable to install the patch because we have the wrong version and then it mentions something about check the language its in.

So yea im hoping theres an Empire earth player here who has encountered the same problem and knows how to fix it :)

Fallen.
30th August 2009, 01:40 PM
make a disc image of it and run the game from a virtual drive using deamon tools or similar.
sounds like the cd drive isnt spinning up fast enough for the game to detect its there.
:hi:

Lt. Wispit
30th August 2009, 02:08 PM
Rightio ill try that might have to download one as i dont no how to use daemon tools for making an image, but the good news is its workin right now dont ask me how but i can see my dad playing the game right now
lol must be a bloody female game.

Shotgun
30th August 2009, 02:13 PM
empire earth is a cool game, I remember when I used to play it. dont have it anymore though... was looking at Empire Earth 3 last night for that fact