I bought BD when it was first released knowing I had several other games to finish up first. I loved DD so much I just could not wait to buy it.
Today I installed it and that all went fine but when running it, after the CD check is done and the game begins to load (screen goes black and flickers as if it is going to play) I get a windows *bonk* and a transparent window simply titled *protection error*. I cannot see the error and can only click on the task and close it, thus not allowing me to see what the error was.
I tried MANY suggestions for this and others for various CD protection problems such as removing the game, running SFclean, reinstalling etc.. to no avail.
I tried running it with and without the patch, swapping drives/disks etc.. Again no luck. I have yet to try installing the game in safe mode as someone suggested but I fail to see that working at all.
I am running Windows XP SP2 final and am as up to date on all my drivers as I can get, including ASPI and/or anything to do with my optical drives.
This is driving me crazy. 4 hours straight of trying to get this game to run.
Please help!
~dark
