please help me! im clueless!

[s00perguy]

ok, i just installed age of empires 3, got to the second disk and it says this:

error 1305.error reading from file C:\Program files\Microsoft Games\Age Of Empires III\Sound\cinematics\19B\Workers.mp3 verify that the file exists and that you can access it.

What do i do? im stuck. i THINK it might mean the disk is partially damaged, but lets hear what you guys have to say. and try not to call me stupid.

 

[hotdogoctopus]

I'd google it.

:EDIT: I'd do it for you, but I'm lazy.

 

[Kodlak]

Maybe try re-installing it.

 

[s00perguy]

Maybe try re-installing it.

no offense, (actually, yes, offense) but go fuck yourself, don't you think thats the first thing anyone would have tried? christ. sharp as a ground down doorknob.

 

[Kodlak]

Maybe try re-installing it.

no offense, (actually, yes, offense) but go fuck yourself, don't you think thats the first thing anyone would have tried? christ. sharp as a ground down doorknob.

Well sorry, you didn't say you'd tried that and it does help quite often.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Wait, when you say you "got to the second disk", are you intimating that you're getting this error while installing the game, or did it successfully install but now you see this error message when you try to run it?

If it's the former, that's kind of a weird error considering the source media would hardly be on your C: drive, if the latter I would ask if you've tried patching the game or looking at the contents of the CDs. It's possible that file might be stored somewhere that you can directly re-copy off the original install disks.

The other possibility that springs to mind is Hard Disk corruption, but a re-install of the program would probably have corrected the error if it was just a bad sector making that file unavailable originally, and the odds of the same file landing in corrupt sectors twice in a row would probably preclude that being the cause.

 

[Giddi]

I've had this a couple of times from buying used games off ebay (slightly scratched).
get a program like alcohol 120% or daemontools, take an image of the offending disk, mount it*, and install off the image. Use the original to run the game from.

Let me know how you go.



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