Soulstorm will not accept the CD keys of DoW or Dark Crusade. Title: Dawn of War: Soulstorm Will Not Accept CD KeyĮxcerpt: I have the same problem, but its with Soulstorm. TrackBack only accepted from WebSite-X Suite web sites.ĭo not submit TrackBacks from other sites. Dark Crusade does not exhibit this problem when you move the intro movie files away.ĭid your message disappear? Read the Forums FAQ. Dawn of War and Winter Assault thinks that the game is broken, so it tries to reinstall itself breaking the CD key in the process. Rather is the attempt to skipping the intro by moving the movie files (see ' Dawn of War: Skipping the Intro'). How do I know a full clean install will work? I done it once before on my 'late' hard drive it died.Īt this time, I believe this problem is not caused by going online with the Dawn of War game. Might want to copy your saved games and stuff under the 'Profiles' directory though. I know, because I forgot to do that just now and have to re-start the un-installation process. including deleting the THQ directory under 'Program Files'. You will know if you are getting screwed when you start Dawn of War and see the following painful configuration screen, with the message, 'Please wait while Windows configures Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War - Platinum Edition'. Play online games using LAN (with Hamachi, etc.). So, my advice, don't go online with your Dawn of War. The only way to get the game to accept the key again is to completely uninstall all DoW games and re-install them. Please check it and try again.' (See screen shot below). It just reports that 'The CD key you entered appears to be invalid. But recently, after going online with the basic Dawn of War game, Dark Crusade will no longer accept the Dawn of War key. I've been merrily playing with all three versions for a while. I've recently bought Dawn of War - Platinum Edition, which includes the original Dawn of War, the Winter Assault Expansion, and the Dark Crusade Expansion. Dawn of War - Platinum Edition Invalid Key Bug

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