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I am installing Warcraft 2 on my Mac using CrossOver games. It is an older version of the game, one made for Win98/NT. CrossOver games initially says it doesn't recognize it when I put the CD in, but then it does an "express install" and the game plays fine. The only trouble is, the same thing happens the next time I put the CD in, so it wants me to install it fresh every time I put the disk in, so I can't save any games. I checked and all the files are installed on my hard drive.

Any suggestions?

Hi there,

I'm just a little confused with the versioning of the game...are you referring to this...;

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2521

or is it an earlier release of the title you have? Whether or not it's the same version,
there's some info over at wineHQ wrt the BNE version, that might be worth investigating
here...see;

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=592

There is an official patches repo for this title over at Blizzard (don't know if they'll
help any, but for the reference 8)...;

http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war2/patches/PC/

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21462&parentCategoryId&pageNumber=1&categoryId=2714

Have you tried using different bottle profiles?..ie; a win95/98/2000 bottle profile set
using winecfg? Due to the age of the game, I would imagine (here) that I'd also have to
use winecfg to turn 'emulate a virtual desktop' ON (and perhaps even set 'desktop size'
to 640x480)..but the behavior you describe seems to me like the software is using some
form of disc based DRM, which is failing (likely so on the Mac), and because of this the
software concludes the game is not installed (correctly) and prompts it into a reinstall.
Note this might be working in the linux case and not the Mac case due to OSX scsi drivers.
-If- it is something to do with DRM on the disc, see http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/dmca
as that article is perhaps applicable here....

Hope this helps...

Cheers!

thanks. I'll give this a shot.

Grant, when the CrossOver CD Helper asks if you want to install from the CD, you can just tell it to ignore the disc.