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Installing DW2 on portable drive and trying to launch on another machine
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 3:34 pm
by Miletkir
I installed DW2 on a portable drive because I often move between machines. However, trying to launch the game from a machine different than the one I used for install gets me a "registration not detected" error (see below). This is a Matrix Game install and my serialreg.txt looks fine. Is there something modified in the registry of the machine used for installation?
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Re: Installing DW2 on portable drive and trying to launch on another machine
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 4:34 pm
by Merlinoz
In my extensive testing for the Crash in Battles i came across a Matrix Game Folder in C:\Windows.
C:\Windows\Matrix Games\Distant Worlds 2\
Maybe you need to move this files too to appear registered?
Re: Installing DW2 on portable drive and trying to launch on another machine
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:07 pm
by Miletkir
Thanks for pointing that out. During all the Beta I ran the game on several portable drives and never heard of that separate system folder. I'll give it a shot.