2020. 2. 26. 04:49ㆍ카테고리 없음
I recently dug out my CD to have some good old (lazy) cycling fun again. It took mesome steps to actually reach the fun part though. Problem one was my lack of CDdrive on my laptop, but luckily that was easily solved by simply making an isofrom the disc and then mounting it with something like WinCDEmu.Problem two was more of a hassle. PCM 2006 uses a disc protection called“Starforce” which only allows you to play when the CD is inserted. While atfirst I feared this might become a problem because of my iso mounting, itturned out Starforce was simply too old to work on Windows 7.
So there I waswith my legitimately bought game and I could not play it due to silly discprotection being outdated. How wonderful. Updating Starforce was also not anoption since then it would not be compatible with the game any more.Some preliminary googling did not turn up anything, but in the end I did stumbleupon.The rest of my post will be mostly rehashing what is mentioned there for thepurpose of having it backed up for me.First off, let us fix things so the game at least starts. For this we use thesilver edition of the game, which Cyanide released some time after theoriginal.
The silver edition includes the 1.0.0.8 patch and removes theStarforce protection. Supposedly it also introduces a language selectionissue, but I only use English and did not encounter anything out of theordinary. Simply copy the files included in the zip file into your game folder(something like C:Program FilesCyanidePro Cycling Manager 2006). Twolinks are provided, they link to the same file so you can decide which you wantto use. If neither work, let me know, I should have it backed up.With that fixed, you should be able to start the game and get to the importantplaying part. However, you may encounter graphical issues on stages with water.They manifest in the form of black or white panels. The provided solution is toremove all water from all stages.
Pro Cycling Manager 2006 English Patch 1
Pro Cycling Manager 2006 No-cd
Once again, a zip file is provided for yourconvenience. It contains updated tracks with as only change from the original:the water is removed. So get the zip file and use it to replace original filesin the CMStages folder which can be found inside the game folder (seeearlier). Again, two mirrors are available.For any custom tracks, you will have to edit your race’s.xml file manually andreplace sea='1' by sea='0'. Furthermore, also remove the data inside the tags.With all that done, you should be good to go! Happy cycling!