Hi everyone, For anyone who is having problems with running Empire At War, I have written a simplified guide. My intention is to help people who own the ORIGINAL GAME or a LEGAL backup of it, so if you've downloaded an illegal copy, don't waste you time PM-ing me about it, you will get no response. This method is for DVD/CD versions. You will not need to mount any images to do this. However, the game can be installed using a mounted image in any virtual disk application. Here is what you do: You will need to get the 1.02 update from Lucas Arts (1.02, NOT 1.03). Once you have downloaded it, install it as you normally would install an update (But if you have messed up any game files with previous failed attempts, then you must first reinstall the game). When the update has been applied, you will need to go to http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D4YL8ZKG as previously posted and download the file. Open it in whatever application you use and extract the files to a folder. Next(For XP users), go to Start Menu/All Programs/Lucas Arts/Star Wars: Empire At War/GameData. Open the folder which you extracted the .rar file into earlier and drag the files it contains to your GameData folder. Allow it to replace any files. Finally, go to Start Menu/All Programs/Lucas Arts/Star Wars: Empire At War and right click the play icon. Choose properties. In the new window, you will see the word Target: and beside it a path to your GameData folder. Delete the path and paste in this line (Including inverted commas) : "C:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars Empire at War\GameData\sweaw.exe" Close all of those windows and start the game by going to Start Menu/All Programs/Lucas Arts/Star Wars: Empire At War and clicking on the play icon. Enjoy the game!
Hey guys, i was wondering where everybody is getting this image in the first place. I searched online but i couldnt find it nonetheless. i just found a bunch of links to forums. can anyone post the URL or PM me?
The link to the replacement .exe crack is here http://www.gameburnworld.com/dl/dl.php?file=StarWarsEmpireAtWarv1.02NoCDNoDVDFixedexeEng.rar enjoy.
I have a question... Which one of the EAW downloads did you download? I think I downloaded the wrong one.. The name of it was Star.Wars.Empire.At.War.BWClone-Mirror. Is this wrong? I downloaded it from Bitreactor The files are so strange There is no iso image of "cd1" Nor "cd2" Please help me! =)
Don't ask stupid questions like that, READ WHAT I POSTED ABOVE, IT IS A DIRECT LINK TO THE CORRECT ONE.
Oh.. by the way it worked for me! Seems i got the right download after all! Just burned it and it worked thank you all for the tips and thank you cremos for starting the thread it realy helped me out! =)
hi! i've reach the bbs cause i couldn't load the game properly, but i figured out, and i want to share it with those who still fighting i've got the dvd5 mdf/mds image from isohunt (Star Wars Empire at War [DVD][English][www.pctorrent.com]), mounted with alcohol 120% 1.9.5 build 3823 (last version) virtual drive, installed OK, and ran for the 1st time fine. when rebooted, the game failed to start with all of those msg you should saw. tried EVERY, securom loader, hiding, another virtual drive like daemon tools4, nero image drive (nero 6.6), clonecd (5.2). NONE worked. then tried to uninstall my dvd burner, load the alcohol virtual drive with NO loader nor hiding, and... DID WORK! finally i've tried to burn that image, cause i've needed the hard driver space. the burned image, refused to play. i've reinstalled from the new burned dvd, but when tried to play, i've got the same old error msg burned another disk, but with alcohol simulation, and didn't work either. then updated the game to last 1.3 patch, and nothing new. the final solution, you'll get it at: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D4YL8ZKG unpack that rar file to "gamedata" sub-dir (back-up the original files, just in case), and run the game directly from sweaw.exe from this location (place a link at your desktop), and you're ready to enjoy the game. be advised that you'll need a decent vga such as 6600 to get a smooth gameplay. thanks to the original poster for the crack and feel free to follow this tips and you'll get your image and your burned dvd working cya!
