NR2003 & key questions HELP?

Here's the question, I have installed my copy of NR2003 on 2 machines... one was while I was visiting my Brother in a different state. OK, now Im fairly adept at the innards of stuff, been racing and tweaking since NR2 and I do pc support for a living... So the TPTcc thing has him all excited while I was up there around Xmas, so after I left he finally got himself a vid card, and plays offline as per my begging him not to go online with it because I would be blocked... That was TOTALLY fine BTW. But now I wanna be able to race him Via "legit" means through Sierra. So my theory was to move mt 2.47 gig nr2003 install (because I mess with PC stuff all the time) install the new version with the new key, then copy my old version back into place, however I feel that I still will get the "CD KEY IS ALREADY IN USE" right because when I copy back "my origina key" is probably in a file in the NR2003 dir, is it not? so can anyone help me, I dont really wanna redo the whole install here, nor have to call long distance to help with the buttloads of patches and well actually all of the dayum tracks where you have to copy .dats & rename plus make the folder.... again on his machine. I know due to some utils that there is a file in my machine (and his) that needs to have the new key somehow... Thanks. PS since some will say this might be sensitive type of info for the board, I can tell you to send an email if you wish to stingre(at} Yahooo[dot}com... thanks (yeah that is the way I spell -> stingre above) Sting32

"Sting32" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]: the only way to play 'legitimately' would be to buy a second product. I think it retails for less than $20 (usa) This is the only way i know of to get past the Sierra CD key conflict. You 'could' avoid the Sierra copy protection and race via ip# and not through the Sierra Servers. That would mean one of you hosting and the other joining via ip, or joing a racing group like OLR that does not use the Sierra Servers. There are several leagues that have their own servers as well and you could both join using a no_cd.exe dave henrie

"Sting32" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Here's the question, I have installed my copy of NR2003 on 2 machines... > one was while I was visiting my Brother in a different state. OK, now Im > fairly adept at the innards of stuff, been racing and tweaking since NR2and > I do pc support for a living... > > So the TPTcc thing has him all excited while I was up there around Xmas,so > after I left he finally got himself a vid card, and plays offline as permy > begging him not to go online with it because I would be blocked... Thatwas > TOTALLY fine BTW. But now I wanna be able to race him Via "legit" means > through Sierra. So my theory was to move mt 2.47 gig nr2003 install > (because I mess with PC stuff all the time) install the new version withthe > new key, then copy my old version back into place, however I feel that I > still will get the "CD KEY IS ALREADY IN USE" right because when I copyback > "my origina key" is probably in a file in the NR2003 dir, is it not? My bet is the key is stored in the registry. I would think you'd be ok doing what you suggested. At worst case after copying your original install you could reinstall the new copy and after patching it copy back everything, but the main folder. That would keep all your add-ons and player info. MadDAWG

"Sting32" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Here's the question, I have installed my copy of NR2003 on 2 machines... > one was while I was visiting my Brother in a different state. OK, now Im > fairly adept at the innards of stuff, been racing and tweaking since NR2and > I do pc support for a living... > > So the TPTcc thing has him all excited while I was up there around Xmas,so > after I left he finally got himself a vid card, and plays offline as permy > begging him not to go online with it because I would be blocked... Thatwas > TOTALLY fine BTW. But now I wanna be able to race him Via "legit" means > through Sierra. So my theory was to move mt 2.47 gig nr2003 install > (because I mess with PC stuff all the time) install the new version withthe > new key, then copy my old version back into place, however I feel that I > still will get the "CD KEY IS ALREADY IN USE" right because when I copyback > "my origina key" is probably in a file in the NR2003 dir, is it not? so > can anyone help me, I dont really wanna redo the whole install here, nor > have to call long distance to help with the buttloads of patches and well > actually all of the dayum tracks where you have to copy .dats & renameplus

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> make the folder.... again on his machine. I know due to some utils that > there is a file in my machine (and his) that needs to have the new key > somehow... > > Thanks. > > PS since some will say this might be sensitive type of info for the board,

I > can tell you to send an email if you wish to stingre(at} Yahooo[dot}com... > thanks (yeah that is the way I spell -> stingre above) > > Sting32 > > Sounds like you would just need to copy over the series folder and player folder. All should be oky dokey and you will have your setup, tracks, cars etc... Whatever you want without moving the whole main folder.... Sean

Dave you missed my point. I did buy the second CD, after installing it with the 1st cd on both machines... See what I hoped was I could do all the work of getting everything on it, then when he got the CD he'd be ready to GO! But as you can guess, I thougth about it as I drove home with his new CD that was shipped to me yesterday, that dammit, how am I going to change the key without redoing all that damn work... the NR2003 dir on my machine is 2.57 gigs with cars, tracks and mods I have installed, same on his. Dave Henrie wrote:

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> "Sting32" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]: > > the only way to play 'legitimately' would be to buy a second > product. > I think it retails for less than $20 (usa) This is the only way i > know of to get past the Sierra CD key conflict. > You 'could' avoid the Sierra copy protection and race via ip# and not > through the Sierra Servers. That would mean one of you hosting and > the other joining via ip, or joing a racing group like OLR that does > not use the Sierra Servers. There are several leagues that have > their > own servers as well and you could both join using a no_cd.exe > dave henrie

NR2003 stores stuff in the Registry... -Larry "Sting32" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Here's the question, I have installed my copy of NR2003 on 2 machines... > one was while I was visiting my Brother in a different state. OK, now Im > fairly adept at the innards of stuff, been racing and tweaking since NR2and > I do pc support for a living... > > So the TPTcc thing has him all excited while I was up there around Xmas,so > after I left he finally got himself a vid card, and plays offline as permy > begging him not to go online with it because I would be blocked... Thatwas > TOTALLY fine BTW. But now I wanna be able to race him Via "legit" means > through Sierra. So my theory was to move mt 2.47 gig nr2003 install > (because I mess with PC stuff all the time) install the new version withthe > new key, then copy my old version back into place, however I feel that I > still will get the "CD KEY IS ALREADY IN USE" right because when I copyback > "my origina key" is probably in a file in the NR2003 dir, is it not? so > can anyone help me, I dont really wanna redo the whole install here, nor > have to call long distance to help with the buttloads of patches and well > actually all of the dayum tracks where you have to copy .dats & renameplus

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> make the folder.... again on his machine. I know due to some utils that > there is a file in my machine (and his) that needs to have the new key > somehow... > > Thanks. > > PS since some will say this might be sensitive type of info for the board,

I > can tell you to send an email if you wish to stingre(at} Yahooo[dot}com... > thanks (yeah that is the way I spell -> stingre above) > > Sting32 > >