My computer won't do anything with the EQ disk

[PyRoShIrA 0]

I just recently bought Everquest Plantinum, figuring my month old Toshiba laptop would have no problems running it.

Then when I put the CD in and it's supossed to autorun it never did, Okay, that's fine...but then when I tried to manually run it told me that the files on the CD were not valid Win32 applications or files.

Thinking it might have been the cd I decided to return it and get a new copy that does the same thing.

I also e-mail Everquest tech support and they claimed that the game was deisgned for a desktop computer and might not work with the graphic or sound card. the compatible list was not avalible for me to check, but that shouldn't make a difference in installing the program anyway.

We have tried a few things to attempt to fix this problem as well as update the CD-ROM Drivers but nothing seems to help

I was wondering if anyone else may have had this problem and or possibly knows how to solve it.

Thanks

[ScinteX 0]

Just a thought but does that game need a DVD-ROM drive as opposed to a CD-ROM drive?

[ScinteX 0]

OOPS! Forget that

 

 

Windows 98/2000/ME/XP; PII 400 or greater; 256MB RAM; ATI Radeon 7500/NVidia GeForce 1 equivalent or greater; DirectX compatible sound card; 28.8k Internet connection; 4X CD-ROM; 500 MB HD space; DirectX 9.0

[ScinteX 0]

This might help:

 

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBL/tip5500/rh5517.htm

 

Failing that I have seen it on occasions where older cdrom drives refuse to read newer CDs. Must be the way they are burnt.

 

Do other CDs work?

[PyRoShIrA 0]

Yeah other CDs work fine.

Infact Doom 3 works fine on my computer.

But like I said my computer is pretty new so there should be no problems running the game.

I'm looking at the link though thanks

[ScinteX 0]

what a weird problem!