Company name? Is this really necessary?

[bradfordkay]

I just installed the patch. You guys are great at supporting your products, and have made an excellent game.

However, I do have a couple of nits to pick about your install programs (I didn't remember this until I installed the patch):

1. Why is it necessary for us to type in a company name during the install program? After all, this is a game and should not be on a company computer, but rather on a home computer... Your program does not allow me to leave that line blank, and so I have to type in "none".

2. When I insert my UV disk, the autorun brings up the install program, even though the game is installed. I suppose that if I had installed the game to the default directory on the C:drive this might not occur, but I have a seperate hard drive for all my wargames (saves them from Windows crashes). Yes, I could disable autorun to prevent this, but why can't the program locate the game and give me a choice to start the game rather than just install?


I realize that these are little details, but they just don't seem to fit with the quality of your product...

[von Murrin]

You can arbitrarily disable autorun by holding down the Shift key after you stick the CD in. Or, if you're like me, you can leave the CD in the drive and put a shortcut to the UV executable into your toolbar.

[bradfordkay]

Thanks, I didn't know about the ability to temporarily disabling the autorun feature with the shift key. I did not want to permanently disable that feature.

[Drex]

Wait a minute I thought we were supposed to play this on our work computers?

[Baia]

Come to think of it, why is it neccessary to even have the cd in the drive. Combat mission occupies my cd space and what I like about wargames is that they are not intensive in the need to access the cd. Folder alone is over 700mb and when my online files arrive for CM or UV I'd like to just fire up the game for a turn and not to shuffle drives. But there's no way around it is there?

[jheydt]

In order to get around the company name info just press the space bar once.

John

[David Heath]

The company information is just the way the install works... sorry guys... the other issue is our copy protection.

[Sonny]

Originally posted by David Heath
The company information is just the way the install works... sorry guys... the other issue is our copy protection.

Copy protection is fine (actually it isn't because I have to insert my CD to get my drive to read it) but you could at least allow the game to be played from the INSTALL UNCOMMON VALOR screen. Many other games do this and with my wacky CD drive it helps me a lot. And after all helping ME is what counts.

[David Heath]

We are working on it.

[Sonny]

Originally posted by David Heath
We are working on it.

Thanks. You guys are great.