F.E.A.R

Tigjaw

Tigjaw

Tigjaw

Associate
Joined
6 Oct 2005
Posts
669
Location
West Midlands
Hi guys,
I ordered FEAR about a week ago in preperation for my new PC components arriving from OC but they haven't arrived yet so I'm currently trying to get it to work on my current PC.

It meets the recommended Specs but the graphics card and processor only scrape it.

Anyway, I just inserted the DVD into my computer but it didn't auto run, so I went into 'my computer' but the DVD wasn't recognised as if it's a blank CD. When I tried to run the CD by clicking on the drive it stopped responding and crashed.

The game does however load up on my brother's computer which is almost identical to mine.

Does anybody have any idea why my CD/DVD combi Drive wont recognise the disk?

Thanks
 
Thanks for the reply, I tried several other CDs/DVDs in my drive and they worked but found something interesting...

my brother and I switched DVD drives (both identical drives) so if it worked I'd know the problem was my drive...turns out it is, his DVD drive in my computer loaded the game up straight away.

Any thought on why my identical drive wont play the game while my brother's will?
 
You may need to try the following. Right click on My Computer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager.

Select your IDE Controllers - look at the below screenshot if you're not sure what it is.

fix.JPG


You'll need to select Primary or Secondary depending upon what the drive is set to (according to ribbon arrangements). Make sure you're changing the CD/DVD drives and not your hard-drives :D

Make sure "Let BIOS select transfer mode" is NOT ticked (unlike my pic) and you try changing the Transfer mode. PIO rings a bell, so try that. If it's already set to PIO, try one of the Ultra DMA's or Multi-word DMA's.

Hopefully this helps, although is not guaranteed.

-RaZ
 
Thanks MoNkeE, I tried that but ran into a problem immediately, here's my Device Manager:
(click to enlarge)


As you can see there's 6 devices and I don't know which one's properties I need to look at. Besides, when I right click>properties on one of those 6 devices a box similar to this comes up. (<--linky)

It doesn't look like your box, any ideas which one it may be or how I can find out?
 
Hey matey,

You'll see in the picture I posted that there's an image of a CD and a CD drive. If you go through all of your devices and look for the one that shows the Primary and Secondary tabs, and then has a picture of the CD and CD drive, you're onto a winner :)

Let mek now how it goes.

Ta,

-RaZ
 
None of the devices have the CD pic of yours.

The only 'property box' that has that CD image is the devices in the CD/DVD device catagory like this:
(click to enlarge)

My computer always has to be different huh :)
 
I don't think it can be a software problem...

My brother and I switched drives (identical drives) and my brother's drive worked perfectly in my computer. However, my drive wouldn't work in my brother's computer.

So I'm guessing it's a hardware problem, any idea what could cause that or is it just zonked?
 
Very repeative tbh. A few people here couldn't even be bothered to finish it. When I completed it I was just glad it was over and saying that it was very short.
 
Last edited:
I had a problem with a dvd-game i bought recently. My problem was that i needed the most recent firmware for my dvd drive for it to be able to read new dvd's. Quake 4 was the game.
 
Yep my first point of call would be to update the drive firmware. I would also make sure you have the latest patch installed.
 
Thanks for the advice, I'll take a look at my firmware but I can't install the patch for the game because I can't even install the game.

EDIT: I've just realised, it can't be firmware or any other software problem:

Tigjaw said:
My brother and I switched drives (identical drives) and my brother's drive worked perfectly in my computer. However, my drive wouldn't work in my brother's computer.
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom