devguy
12-21-2007, 05:59 PM
Thank you Aspyr for trying to keep us XP x64 users from playing your game. Why you would do that I don't know (laziness? hate? confusion?). Well, here is a little tutorial for those of us with XP x64 who want to play guitar hero but have been screwed by Aspyr.
1) Take your Guitar Hero III PC disk and dump the contents of it to a folder on your hdd.
2) Install Orca 3.1 (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Authoring-tools/Setup-creators/Orca.shtml) which is an MSI editor.
3) Open Orca and open the Guitar Hero III.msi file.
4) Navigate in the left side to "Launch Conditions" and click it once - you should see some stuff in the right pane.
5) Edit the part under condition so that it only says "(Not Version9X=400) And (Not Version9X=410) And (Not Version9X=490)" which only lets you not install it on Windows 9x (it will now work on xp x64 and 2003 and probably even 2000).
6) Save
7) Install Guitar Hero III using the files you dumped into a directory without the disk in the drive.
8) Once it is done installing, just put the disk back into the drive and double click the launch icon.
*Note, the Guitar Hero III patch again destroys your option of playing on xp x64 so don't install that*
For those of you who want even faster load times, you can rip your DVD to an image file and using Daemon Tools 4.06HE (yes it has to be this version and yes it can be the x64 version) mount the image of your disk using that with all emulation options enabled. Also, you'll need to download YASU.exe and put it into the directory that has the Daemon tools executable (program files (x86)/daemon tools/...) and then open that up. Click cloak and then minimize it. You should then be able to play the game without having to have the disk in your drive as well as having faster load times (hurray for being able to reduce the chances of getting scratches on our game disk).
Anyways, thanks Aspyr for locking out paying customers for absolutely no reason whatsoever!! :banghead:
1) Take your Guitar Hero III PC disk and dump the contents of it to a folder on your hdd.
2) Install Orca 3.1 (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Authoring-tools/Setup-creators/Orca.shtml) which is an MSI editor.
3) Open Orca and open the Guitar Hero III.msi file.
4) Navigate in the left side to "Launch Conditions" and click it once - you should see some stuff in the right pane.
5) Edit the part under condition so that it only says "(Not Version9X=400) And (Not Version9X=410) And (Not Version9X=490)" which only lets you not install it on Windows 9x (it will now work on xp x64 and 2003 and probably even 2000).
6) Save
7) Install Guitar Hero III using the files you dumped into a directory without the disk in the drive.
8) Once it is done installing, just put the disk back into the drive and double click the launch icon.
*Note, the Guitar Hero III patch again destroys your option of playing on xp x64 so don't install that*
For those of you who want even faster load times, you can rip your DVD to an image file and using Daemon Tools 4.06HE (yes it has to be this version and yes it can be the x64 version) mount the image of your disk using that with all emulation options enabled. Also, you'll need to download YASU.exe and put it into the directory that has the Daemon tools executable (program files (x86)/daemon tools/...) and then open that up. Click cloak and then minimize it. You should then be able to play the game without having to have the disk in your drive as well as having faster load times (hurray for being able to reduce the chances of getting scratches on our game disk).
Anyways, thanks Aspyr for locking out paying customers for absolutely no reason whatsoever!! :banghead: