What did you upgrade from?
I've been using Game Jackal for about a couple of years. The profiles were made with various earlier versions.
And do they work if you re-profile?
Variable. Max Payne and I-War 2 had stopped working too, but I updated their profiles and they worked. Chronicles of Riddick still doesn't work after updating its profile. I haven't tested the rest.
I've tried running the remainder of my profiles, and here's a full list of my once-working and now-failing profiles, along with the type of failure.
Some of them actually crash on start-up now (i.e. I get a Windows error dialog saying "foo.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.... Please tell Microsoft about this problem... Send error report..."). I've tested all but one of those cases with the CD in the drive (not running them through game jackal), and they work fine. My Startopia disc eludes me.
Alice (insert disc)
Aliens vs Predator 2 (doesn't start; no error)
Baldur's Gate (insert disc)
Baldur's Gate 2 (insert disc)
Black & White (crash; tested OK with CD)
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay (insert original disc instead of backup)
Deus Ex - Invisible War (conflict detected)
Far Cry (insert disc)
IL-2 Sturmovik Complete (insert disc)
Jane's Attack Squadron (insert disc)
Leadfoot (insert disc)
Mafia (crash; tested OK with CD)
No One Lives Forever 2 (doesn't start; no error)
Operation Flashpoint (crash; tested OK with CD)
Painkiller (insert disc)
Project EDEN (insert disc)
Rome - Total War (insert disc)
SWAT 3 (insert disc)
SWAT 4 - The Stetchkov Syndicate expansion (doesn't start; no error)
Startopia (crash; not tested with CD)
Thief - Deadly Shadows (insert original disc instead of backup)
Tribes: Vengeance (insert original disc instead of backup)
Vietcong (conflict detected)
I know that you guys need detailed information in general to help, but there's a real problem here when so many profiles stop working over time, and it's quite discouraging thinking that even if we go to the trouble of posting the information you need, it might break again in a future update.
There comes a point when it occurs that downloading a No CD crack would be preferable to going through the profiling and re-profiling hassle, because I know that the crack will always work (which is naturally what I'm looking for from a 'No CD' solution).
I'm extremely happy to spend time providing information if I know that it will result in a profile that will work permanently.
I'm pretty unenthusiastic about spending that time if I know that the profile might easily stop working when I update game jackal.
I had posted this as an initial response:
http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=24287
If an approach like that is possible with Game Jackal, I hope you guys will seriously consider it, as it would prevent all failures of this sort.
We know up front that Game Jackal doesn't support all games; so if we create a new profile and it doesn't work, that's okay. We get that, and we're prepared for possible failure at that point of the procedings. But once we've created a profile and it consistently works, I think it is disasterous P.R. for your product if that profile stops working in the future.
It's annoying enough for me when I have all the discs nearby (except for Startopia, which seems worth mentioning again at this point), but consider people gaming on their laptop away from home, or who have left their CDs in storage/with parents/whatever on moving, because everything was working fine.
Right now, I couldn't recommend Game Jackal to anyone as a sufficiently reliable solution. Which is a huge shame, because it's basically awesome.
Fix the upgrade issue, and I'll sing its praises again.
