Duke Nukem Manhatan Project

[papaschtroumpf]

When the game starts it gives you a small window with "play/uninstall/web site/readme/..." buttons.
Is ther eany way to bypass that screen (command line option or "wrapper" trick?"
It looks pretty ugly superimposed to the mamewah screen.

[TalkingOctopus]

Look in the directory you installed it.  There is probably a second executable in there that launches the game.  Use that executable instead of the one that launches the menu.

[papaschtroumpf]

well, i feel stupid about not thinking about that, the other executable is "prism3d.exe", however I still have a problem:
DukeNukem runs from CD and I use daemon tools to mount a hard-drive copy of the CD (because I have other games that use CDs and  don't want to physically swap the CDs).
Inserting the CD (even virtually) causes it to autoplay., which launches the program I'm complaining about in my original post.
For the life of me I can't seem to figure out how to stop a *single* drive from autoplaying. I still want my actual DVD drive to autoplay since I sometimes use it to play DVDs on my cab and I don' twant to have to manually launch the DVD player.

Any hint on how to disable autoplay for the daemon tools drive?

failing that, anyone knows of a way to edit a CD bin file to remove the autoplay file so it stops autoplaying (I don't think modifying the disk image is a legal issue since it's for personal use and I still have the original CD if I need it).

[TalkingOctopus]

Don't feel stupid.  It's stupid that every game launches a menu before launching the actual game.  They all do this because the menu screen is the Securom loader or whatever crummy cd protection the game utilizes.  

I am actually not sure how to disable autoplay for a single cdrom drive in XP.  If I remember correctly, you used to be able to turn off "auto insert notification" in the cdrom properties in previous versions of windows.  However, Microsoft must have decided no one would want to do this because in XP, that requires a registry edit that disables autoplay on ALL drives.  

You can edit the image using isobuster.  Delete autorun.inf from the root directory of the image.

[screaming]

In My Computer, when you right-click on the drive and go to properties, you don't have an AutoPlay tab?

-Steve

[TalkingOctopus]

In My Computer, when you right-click on the drive and go to properties, you don't have an AutoPlay tab?

-Steve

Yes - but you cannot specify what should happen when a game cd is inserted.  You can only control music, dvds, photos CDs ect..

[screaming]

In My Computer, when you right-click on the drive and go to properties, you don't have an AutoPlay tab?

-Steve

Yes - but you cannot specify what should happen when a game cd is inserted.  You can only control music, dvds, photos CDs ect..

This was the request:

I am actually not sure how to disable autoplay for a single cdrom drive in XP.

  In Windows XP, you right click on the drive in My Computer, click Properties, go to the AutoPlay tab, click Select an action to preform, then select Take no action and click OK.

  Works for me.

-S

[papaschtroumpf]

I'll give it a try. Thanks!