Installing COD:4

[MetaDFF]

I finally picked up a copy of COD:4 from my local computer store and I read on the bottom of the box which says, "This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disc and virtual drives."

I've read somewhere that if you install COD:4 on a machine with Daemon tools installed, the single player game will not launch, unless you use the a NOCD patch. Is this correct?

Also how does this affect the multiplayer game? I don't want to get my CD key banned for "hacking" by having a patched singleplayer exe file, or for having a virtual disc loader installed.

I'm pretty sure there are more than a few people who have come across this.

 

[Jeeebus]

Daemon Tools doesn't affect my COD4 play at all - single or multiplayer.

 

[Canai]

It might depend on what kind of virtual drives you have set up in Dtools, and what version of Dtools you have. To fool the DRM on The Witcher after I bought it, I had to install Dtools pro advanced and use a couple masking options and IDE virtual drives. Before doing that I had to actually disable my physical optical drive to play some games, since for some reason the DRM picked up the real drive as the phantom one

Bottom line: If you have to crack the game to play SP, remove the crack before you play MP, and you should be safe. It won't ban your key for simply having Dtools installed, but it may ban it if you use modified game files when playing online.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Nope I have Daemon Tools installed and have no issues playing COD4.

 

[MetaDFF]

I just installed the game and it seems that it doesn't have any issues with having daemon tools loaded.

Now time to start playing

 

[TallBill]

I have daemon tools installed and a legit copy of COD4 and no problems.