Can I make Far Cry play when the CD is in my DVD drive?

[glen]

Can I make Far Cry play when the CD is in my DVD drive?

So, far it will only read the play CD in my CD-ROM, not the DVD-ROM.

Do I need to get a no CD patch or is there one that will just make it read the CD in my DVD-ROM?

 

[The Green Bean]

no cd patch u wont need the cd in any drive.

 

[BlueWeasel]

A NoCD patch would be the easiest way to go (be sure to backup the .EXE for future updates).

Which drive leter is first? A lot of older games would only use the first drive letter as the game drive, but most newer games will recognize if the CD is in either drive? You could switch the drive letters around to see, but that might mess up other games.

 

[glen]

I wonder if the problem has somethign to do with the DVD drive.
I could not get it to install from that drive. It was as if some sort of "protection" sceme kept the DVD drive from properly reading the disc.

 

[XplosiV]

Any game that needs a cd to play will put a regestry entry into your regestry that tells the game which drive letter it was installed from. You could try a 'no cd' patch or if you dont want to mess around with patch's and backing up .exe's you could try something like Farstones Virtual CD Drive software. It lets you have upto 24 'Virtual cd Drives' one for each drive letter. Just rip your game CD onto your hard drive, using the software, Insert your 'Virtual cd' (the game cd you just ripped) into any chosen 'Virtual Drive' and install the game from that. It would save the ware n tear of your CD and cd / dvd rom drives and also you dont have to constantly change cd's for each game you play.

 

[BFG10K]

Can I make Far Cry play when the CD is in my DVD drive?

Are you saying your DVD drive can't read the CD? If that's the case your drive might be faulty.

If you get a "please insert the disk" then try some of the options like "try again" and "ok" a few times and it should work. If it still doesn't work it could be the drive letter is hard-coded in the registry so either use a no-CD crack or edit the registry.

 

[alrocky]

Finished Cry Cry a while back before I recently installed a DVD drive. The cd will play from my DVD drive. Don't recall ever having any related problems on my old computer regarding CD and DVD drives.
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Edit: Ok, just tried Jedi Academy Cd in the DVD drive and game starts but I get a prompt to insert disk 1. And cant find a quick for that. Game will play normally in CD drive (where originally installed from). Couple of other games started off fine from the DVD drive.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: alrocky
Finished Cry Cry a while back before I recently installed a DVD drive. The cd will play from my DVD drive. Don't recall ever having any related problems on my old computer regarding CD and DVD drives.

It would not even install from the DVD drive.
I do not know why.

 

[Megatomic]

Hmm, strange problem. I'd probably do like the others suggested and use a NoCD patch.

I have my own odd problem with Far Cry. I didn't have to type in the CD Key before playing the game. It is a copy that came with the A64 combo deal. Is that normal?

 

[PricklyPete]

I play Far Cry all the time with the CD in my DVD player. This with both a Pioneer DVD player and a Asus DVD Player.

 

[shamgar03]

I definately think it has to do with where you installed it from. That has happend to me on many a game.