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As I understand it, I had to remove the "read-only" attribute from the files BECAUSE I WAS COPYING IT FROM THE CD-ROM! I have run into this "oops" before in other contexts, where I was trying to edit a file that I had copied off of a CD-ROM. If you are loading the floppy version, you should...

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! I finally got WC2 to run. Yes, the trick is to remove the "Read Only" attribute from all of the files that have been copied from the CD. The only difference with me was that I had to run WINSTALL.EXE instead of INSTALL.EXE to configure it. Again (for those...

Update I got a little farther last night. I found a wc2.cfg file in a subdirectory (folder) called ORIGIN2. When I ran the install.exe in the WING2 folder, it changed this file! So. I copied the wc2.cfg file to the WING2 folder and tried running wc2.exe. The program seemed to run--it no...

I have been having the same experiences I have been playing games for years, and I cannot remember a more frustrating experience than I am having now, trying to get WC2 loaded and running. Of course, I first tried using the install program on the CD, but that, of course, just doesn't work...