F:NV asking for CD after Old World Blues install?

[sniperwolfmgs2000]

I don't know if anyone else is coming across this problem yet, but i seems about 75% of the time when i equip the sonic emitter, the game suddenly asks me to insert the CD, even though i bought the game on steam. Seems like a really weird bug to be asking for that on a weapon equip, any answers or fixes would be greatly appreciated.

[Deleted1744345User]

This might not be what you want to hear, but you might want to try reinstalling the game. I know it takes a while, but at least all of the updates and DLC's are automatically downloaded after the installation is finished. It's worth a shot because anything could be wrong with the hundreds of files you may already have in place. Also, I don't know why Steam would ask for a CD in ANY case when you can easily play games without them.

[blove]

I don't know if anyone else is coming across this problem yet, but i seems about 75% of the time when i equip the sonic emitter, the game suddenly asks me to insert the CD, even though i bought the game on steam. Seems like a really weird bug to be asking for that on a weapon equip, any answers or fixes would be greatly appreciated.

 

Was the message something like this?

 

Fallout3.exe - No Disk

 

There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive

\Device\harddisk2\DR2

 

I ran in to that error message when equipping certain plasma weapons from a mod while working on a plasma critical kill CTD issue. That issue is unrelated, but I did find out what caused the No Disk message. The meshes for those weapons had explicit texture references like "E:\fallout 3\data\textures\..." instead of implicit ones like "textures\...". My first thoughts were:

 

Looking at them in nifskope I see under header/strings one of the textures has a path of E:\fallout 3\data\textures\... and so on rather than textures\... I do not know enough about how to change it or maybe it is supposed to be that way *shrug*. You know, thinking about this some and why more people have not mentioned it...I do not have a E: drive letter. If I did, I think it would just skip right by.

 

Then I dug around a little more:

 

I tested the drive letter theory. My E drive is mapped for Daemon Tools for loading ISOs which I currently do not have an ISO loaded in. If I map my E drive to a USB drive, no pop-ups. If I completely unmap my E drive, no pop-ups. When I remap my E drive to Daemon Tools, pop-ups...

 

Now, I do not get the same errors that you did with OWB's sonic emitters but I did check them out. The weapon meshes seem fine. The projectile meshes though do have explicit texture references in them like "d:\projects\fallout\game\data\textures\nvdlc03\effects\nvdlc03fx\...".

 

The meshes affected are:

 

meshes\nvdlc03\projectiles\sonicblueprojectile01.nif

meshes\nvdlc03\projectiles\sonicgreenprojectile01.nif

meshes\nvdlc03\projectiles\sonicorangeprojectile01.nif

meshes\nvdlc03\projectiles\sonicpurpleprojectile01.nif

meshes\nvdlc03\projectiles\sonicredprojectile01.nif

 

In your case, you probably have D: as a DVD/CDROM drive with no disk in it or something like Daemon Tools with no image loaded. You could remap D: to another drive letter (easiest) or extract the meshes from the OWB BSA and edit the explicit references like "d:\projects\fallout\game\data\textures\nvdlc03\effects\nvdlc03fx\..." to be implicit like like "textures\nvdlc03\effects\nvdlc03fx\..." using NifSkope.