If there's a thread running somewhere else about which I don't know, I'm sorry. What's a simple way to have the game reference a folder on the hard drive from which I have copied the contents of the CD? Thanks.
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Install the game, start the game, and then you can remove the CD and it should run fine.
Why do you want it to run off the HDD?
Why do you want it to run off the HDD?
The thrust of my question stems from the fact that I cannot get the game to run so that I might remove the CD and continue playing.
If there was such a thread it would get deleted as it would allow people to pirate the game.
So I don't think you'll get your question answered.
than why don't you start a new thread explaining your problem so that we can try to find a fix for you?
Like Derek said, we cannot give you info on how to bypass the copy protection scheme, but we might find a solution.
there is an SF representative lurking around here, but with a title like that, he won't even bother reading your post
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Re: Viper....
yes I realized that I'm suffering from paranoia since I'm a moderator
Still I'd like him to start a new thread with his problem and his configuration. If we can't help him, than at least, we can find a "pattern" in all those copy protection problems and see what hardware Securom is picky about... So far, it doesn't like DVD-ROMs for sure, and it's apparently designed to not work on CD-R or CD-RW.
I wish there was a publisher in North America not using that darn thing...
I think I'm going to look trough other boards from other game companies on the web that use Securom or other copy protection thing, they might have found something else we didn't.
Originally posted by Uglyduck
He has a legal copy
yes I realized that
I'm suffering from paranoia since I'm a moderator Still I'd like him to start a new thread with his problem and his configuration. If we can't help him, than at least, we can find a "pattern" in all those copy protection problems and see what hardware Securom is picky about... So far, it doesn't like DVD-ROMs for sure, and it's apparently designed to not work on CD-R or CD-RW.
I wish there was a publisher in North America not using that darn thing...
I think I'm going to look trough other boards from other game companies on the web that use Securom or other copy protection thing, they might have found something else we didn't.
Well, one very good reason is that the music playing often interferes with multiplayer play, especially when changing tracks...and as you can't turn the music off during play ($#@^%*!) and you don't want to inconvenience several other players in several other countries by restarting (you've usually gone through that half-a-dozen times already by that stage of a multiplayer game), its handy to know you can just yank the damn cd out!
The music is in MP3 format. If you don't have a recent sound card, it can create slowdown problem on some system. The next patch will probably fix some issues with that, but I can't confirm. Our beta versions are playing fine.
With EU 1 (and with most game), you could get the CD out of the drive, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with that one.
With EU 1 (and with most game), you could get the CD out of the drive, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with that one.
I am going on a PM I received as I dont have the commercial release. If I was wrongly informed then would someone please let me know