Grumble, getting frustrated

[the Jester]

Okay, I'm trying to install Baldur's Gate II on my computer (yeah, old game, I know, but I never got to play it out), but I keep having an error message come up (a cyclic redundancy check). The Interplay support site indicates that I should:

# Right click on "My Computer"
# Select "Properties"
# Click on the "Performance" tab
# Click on "File System"
# Clcik on the "CD-ROM" tab

The problem is, I have no "File System" showing up anywhere... I have looked every way I can figure to look and can't turn this up. Can anybody help me find my way to this mythical tab?

Thanks!

 

[hong]

That's a Win 95/98/ME tab. The equivalent in XP would be something like My Computer -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> DVD/CD-ROM Drive or My Computer -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers (pick the controller that your CD drive is on). Not seeing how this would solve your problem, though.

 

[the Jester]

Oh, the full instructions I have are:

# Right click on "My Computer"
# Select "Properties"
# Click on the "Performance" tab
# Click on "File System"
# Clcik on the "CD-ROM" tab
# Under "Optimize access pattern for" select "No Read Ahead"
# Click on "OK"
# Click on "CLOSE"
# The system will want to restart for these changes to take effect. Click "YES" to restart.

I didn't cut & paste the full bit, before.

If you still don't see this helping, do you have any other suggestions?

 

[the Jester]

Humm, and I'm still not finding what I am ultimately looking for. :gnash:

Am I not savvy enough to find the little drop-down menu that I seek??

 

[trancejeremy]

Could actually just be a bad disc. That will give you that error...try copying all the files into a directory on your hard drive and run the setup from that.

 

[grimwell]

Try this thread at the BioWare forums. Seems to be a guy with a similar problem and fix... Moderators weighed in there as well and didn't say "This stinks!" so there may be hope.