Riped off yet again at Pantip

[Guest]

Over the years i have purchased several copy cd-rom games for my laptop in LOS. None of them have ever worked, so i gave up trying.

 

However, I went to Pentip today to buy some DVD's, and clocked a couple of games that i wanted. I said to the guy, 'look, i never have any luck with these pissing games, I would rather buy an extra few DVD's than get fucked over again buying this crap.' He convinced me, that the games i wanted, would work on ANY pc/laptop windows 98 and avbove. So i got them. And they dont fucking work, and i am fucking livid at being stitched up yet again.

 

Do you guys have any joy with this shite?

 

My laptop is fairly old (4/5 years), but that should not matter. I dont have a DVD drive but the games clearly state CD-Rom.

 

Whats more, they load! Just sat here for half an hour waiting for Call Of Duty to load. When i hit the icon, it says the following; "FATAL ERROR - Can not load OpenGL. Make sure that you have the latest drivers for your video card from the manufacturers web site"

 

What the fucking fuck am i supposed to do now? Take my laptop apart, find the driver (not that i would know where to look), see who makes it, then spend hours on google searching for latest drivers? Sounds like a bunh of crap to me.

 

I am realy fucking livid at this. Pissed off with being riped off with this crap. Jesus its not hard is it? All i want to do is play a sodding game on my laptop!

 

Can anyone offer any guidance? Thiese pissing CD's have a game inside, somewhere i just know it. My question is, to any tekys out there, how the fuck do i get it TO LISTEN TO ME! AAAGGHH!

 

Can anyone, please help!

 

Another game i purchased (medal of honour), prior to install says "please enter pin code on back of manual". I dont have a pissing manual, do I! Its a copy!

 

It reall, realy, realy winds the bollocks out of me, i tell you.

 

If anyone has any ideas, please help.

[lembeh]

 

For the pin code, have a look at the listing of files on the cd. There should be a file that has the information, either a "readme" file or other. They will have "cracked" it before selling it (another place worth looking at it the paper picture thing that comes with the cd, it might also be printed somewhere on that). Rest assured, they *will* have provided the info somewhere.

 

I will leave the driver question to some one better equiped, but to find info on your sound card is easy (make and manafacturer), but basically you need to look in the control panel at "audio devices" etc.. same same for your video card..

-j-

[kamui]

Batty said:

 

Whats more, they load! Just sat here for half an hour waiting for Call Of Duty to load. When i hit the icon, it says the following; "FATAL ERROR - Can not load OpenGL. Make sure that you have the latest drivers for your video card from the manufacturers web site"

 

What the fucking fuck am i supposed to do now? Take my laptop apart, find the driver (not that i would know where to look), see who makes it, then spend hours on google searching for latest drivers? Sounds like a bunh of crap to me.

 

 

Every game has minimum requirements to play, if your notebook is 4-5 years old it is almost probably that it is way below the minimum requirements.

 

The weakest part of most notebooks are the graphic cards, even the most up to date notebooks have problems to play the latest games well (except you buy a 3.000 US$ notebook which almost has the size of a desktop pc :.

 

What you could try to do: go the notebook makers homepage and try to find the latest driver for your graphic card, but I doubt that it will help much. Your notebook is just too old for most games.

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[Guest]

Josh/kamui

 

Deep breath..... sorry for the rant. Fair to say I was a little wound up at the time!

 

The pin code does not exist anywhere on the sleeve. I opened a read me file, however this was a standard garb for EA games, no info on code.

 

I have searched through control panel to find the make of the graphics card, but the closest i get is Control Panel>sounds and multimedia>Hardware> then a list of several sound/video devices, none of which look close (to me anyhow!). Could it be the 'Yamaha WMD Driver' ???

 

Actualy, after a quick Google search Im not so sure if the laptop is indeed that old. It is a Toshiba Tecra 8000, with a pentium 2. I just had a quick look for latest driver, and cant find anything for this model. Is there a specialist website for latest drivers? Any ideas?

[cavanami]

Do you have access to another PC to try to get the games loaded?

 

Try with a newer PC.

 

When I make purchases at Pan Tip I have always used the same DVD/software shop. Over the years they know me and I am always able to return items that do not work.

 

For DVDs, they always tell me which ones not to buy, as they are poor quality and what not.

 

This shop, ground fllor, has provided excellent service and the ladies are cute! ::

[Guest]

Cavanami

 

I didnt mention it in my first post but 3 of the 5 DVD's i brought are crap handheld movie-cam style. Cant watch them. This contributed to my initial anger/rant in OP as i said to the guy at Pentip "I will buy 5 today. If i pick one up that is mai dee, tell me, ok? I will still buy 5, either way, just tell me if i choose a bad one, and i will choose something else. This way, i will know to trust you, and use this store weekly, ok?" He still sold me 3 shite DVD's.

 

How i miss my regular shop in Samui....They used to rate each dvd by percentage, such as .... "this one 100%. This one 95%, should not bother you too much. This one 80%, very very bad do not buy"

 

Anyway, if anyone has further suggestions on how to download a driver, it would be very much appreciated. I am determined this time around.

[cavanami]

Yes, they want to sell the DVDs!

 

I would suggest you use the shop that I use, but how to describe where it is located??? ground floor, all ladies selling the CDs/DVDs, no men, about the center of the ground floor, directly next to a shop selling digital clocks, batteries, massage devices.

 

For your driver, check the website for the PC maker as they are the ones that will have the latest video driver.

 

If you have all the info for the video card, you might check the website for the video card maker.

[keekwai]

>>>"What the fucking fuck am i supposed to do now? Take my laptop apart, find the driver (not that i would know where to look), see who makes it, then spend hours on google searching for latest drivers? Sounds like a bunh of crap to me.

 

If you want to find where your driver is located by opening your laptop you'll need to remove the hard drive, open it up and take it apart. Once you have the actual disks out of the hard drive itself you'll need a special microscope to search the magnetized spots (should only be a few billion of the littlt buggers)

[kamui]

Batty said:

 

Anyway, if anyone has further suggestions on how to download a driver, it would be very much appreciated. I am determined this time around.

 

PS: Here are the specs for your model:

Tecra 8000

If I understand the specs right your graphics card has 2,5 MB memory. This is good to display word documents, but not for most games.

[Guest]

Cavanami

Truth be told I dont think the guy actualy knows which are ok, and which are not. In true Thai style, rather than admit he dosent know he would rather just say yes to all! Oh well, its only a few DVd's, not the end of the world.

 

Keekwai

ha, you have got me there!

 

Kamui

Thanks very much for the link. Would you mind having another quick look and telling me which one to download? Display driver? Sound driver? Im not sure.