MilKat

Well, I just bought World of Warcraft yesterday while at the store. Yeah, I know, it's been out awhile, though until last October I didn't have a comp that was really up to snuff with newer computers; and well as to games that require subscriptions, I had other things I had to take care of financially, then...

Anyhow, logging in, the patch is a sizeable 454 MB, which is right up there with Windows Service Packs since the win2k days and on Course, I installed it, while also downloading the complete 3rd doctor of Doctor Who (a 42 GB download); but in any case, lets just say on a broadband connection, it's sorta painful Probably won't be able to get in there, well for awhile...

One thing I did run into installing, and I'm not sure if it's

- Bad CDs
- Blizzard using some newer "copy protection" scheme that doesn't work well with the DVD drive I used to install (did get the drive back in 2001 or there abouts, so it is an older drive)
- Something with Vista beta 2

But after it started the install, when it requested other CDs, I had to put them in the CD drive an indeterminate number of times, before the presence of a CD would even be recognized. The drive light would flash once, nothing would happen, it wouldn't accept the CD being in there, and "My Computer" showed "CD unknown" in properties, act as if no CD was in there.

After, sometimes a few times opening and closing the CD, playing around, putting it back in, closing it with nothing in there, and whatever, it would finally recognize the CD and carry on install from there.

Other CDs are read just fine, though Event Viewer did give several recent warnings about "CD 1 has bad block..."

I say this, because a beta OS does leave some iffy parts. However Event Viewer does suggest it could be some bad CDs, but 4 of 5 all having the same prob? On the other hand, Blizzard has used anti-copy protection in the past (though the Diablo II and xpack CDs are read just fine in that drive) that didn't always play with older drives. Well I do have 2 other CD/DVD drives I could try. Barring that, and if it isn't bad CDs, then getting the CDs read was a bit messy...