Crysis DVD broken in SATA drives.

[Deleted member 4644]

I figured it out. Crysis is INCOMPATIBLE with SATA DVD burners. Works perfectly with PATA drives and USB drives I tested. Does not work properly with SATA drives. Checked it on two computers/several drives.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Have you tried a replacement disc?

I haven't seen this on the InCrysis forums.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Have you tried a replacement disc?

I haven't seen this on the InCrysis forums.

Yes, I'm on my second disk. Works perfectly, but only in a PATA drive.

http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=272585

 

[Kromis]

It worked on my SATA DVD burner. It took awhile to read though. It made some kind of clicking sound but it still went through.

 

[wrangler]

Worked on mine as well.

 

[BFG10K]

Maybe those drives needs firmware updates? I can't believe it'd be the interface that?s causing it as that?s 100% transparent to the disc.

 

[coldmeat]

It works perfect on mine.

 

[skace]

It works, I won't say perfectly, because I know that fucking clicking noise is not normal functionality for my DVD drive considering I've never even heard it before.

 

[exdeath]

Bet you anything it has to do with some bullshit Nazi DRM scheme and the way the out of spec commands are framed over the PATA or SATA bus...

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: exdeath
Bet you anything it has to do with some bullshit Nazi DRM scheme and the way the out of spec commands are framed over the PATA or SATA bus...

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Crysis is protected (infected) with Sony's SecuROM DRM and the associated issues that come with it. Checkout some of the links in the SecuROM discussion thread..


If you are using Daemon Tools, uninstall it, and then run the SPTD installer / uninstaller and if it has uninstall as an option, select it, otherwise exit it. (SPTD is used by both Alcohol and Daemon Tools). Sony's SecuROM blacklists (and thus you have to constantly update Daemon Tools and Alcohol 52%) virtual drive software along with several other legitimate applications such as Microsoft's Process Explorer.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Originally posted by: Kromis
It worked on my SATA DVD burner. It took awhile to read though. It made some kind of clicking sound but it still went through.

um yea, that isnt working properly.

 

[waggy]

great. another game getting screwed by securom.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

For those that don't have issues, please request (demand if you have to) replacement discs. You may run into this issue in the future, and EA needs to pay for this bullshit of breaking peoples DVD drives.

 

[Jules]

Works fine on my SATA DVD Burner.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Have you tried a replacement disc?

I haven't seen this on the InCrysis forums.

I can confirm he's right about this. Probably stems from the fact that Daemon tools et. al. use virtual SCSI devices and SATA drives show up as SCSI devices.

This game won't work on my SATA drive, but it does load on my PATA DVD burner. I wish Alcohol Soft et would just write PATA virtual drivers and be done with it.

 

[Anubis]

looks like im taking Crysis off my Xmass list

 

[zagood]

Interesting...

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=44652

Check out the post on Dual Layer DVD's. May be worth doing delving into a little further.

-z

 

[ayabe]

If this problem is due to Daemon Tools/Alcohol virtual drives being installed, isn't this sort of par for the course nowadays? I thought that particular problem first surfaced a couple years ago with some big time release whose name escapes me at the moment.

 

[Throckmorton]

It took them a decade to actually put games on DVD, and now they don't work!

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: MyStupidMouth
Works fine on my SATA DVD Burner.

same here. more research needed before such a blanket statement by the OP