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Torrent game on notebook

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Craveman

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I've recently downloaded a torrent for Warcraft 3. There are 3 files like: "Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne [Disk 1].iso" all ready to be burnt to disc. The problem is of course that I have a notebook and no way to burn or read disks. I've played around and opened the first CD with winRAR archiver and it installed the game after I clicked the "install" file. Everything looked good and I even had the game icon as a shortcut on my desktop but when I clicked on the icon this message came up: Warcraft III was unable to locate your CD-ROM drive. Please make sure your Warcraft III disk is in your CD-ROM drive, then click on “Retry”.

Have any of you ever encountered this problem before and how did you fix it? I would appreciate any tips.

Thanks
 
Craveman said:
Hey

I've recently downloaded a torrent for Warcraft 3. There are 3 files like: "Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne [Disk 1].iso" all ready to be burnt to disc. The problem is of course that I have a notebook and no way to burn or read disks. I've played around and opened the first CD with winRAR archiver and it installed the game after I clicked the "install" file. Everything looked good and I even had the game icon as a shortcut on my desktop but when I clicked on the icon this message came up: Warcraft III was unable to locate your CD-ROM drive. Please make sure your Warcraft III disk is in your CD-ROM drive, then click on “Retry”.

Have any of you ever encountered this problem before and how did you fix it? I would appreciate any tips.

Thanks
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I have a tip, buy the freaking game. It is cheap now.
 
RavenSEAL said:
If by buy you mean downloaded the game illegally, and by friend you mean you, no. Go buy a digital copy, it's like $20. Then you won't have any problems playing it.

http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=110000090
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That will be a much easier option. I'll buy the digital copy as travelling at the mo and no way to have CD's delivered even if I wanted to go for Amazon option. Thanks for the link and sorry for original question.
 
with all that energy solving to run a illegally downloaded game, why not use your time to work a couple of hours and buy a retail game to save yourself a headache lols.
 
I downloaded mine via torrent too so what, it was blizzards torrent though lol. I have the disk still too.
 
Craveman said:
OK apologies. How about this scenario then: My friend legally bought a game which contains three disks...He has a notebook. Any way to play the game?
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lawl

Powermoloch said:
with all that energy solving to run a illegally downloaded game, why not use your time to work a couple of hours and buy a retail game to save yourself a headache lols.
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You'd probably have to work an hour or less to afford WC3 these days.

KeypoX said:
I downloaded mine via torrent too so what, it was blizzards torrent though lol. I have the disk still too.
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Except Blizzard's torrents are not distributed as cd images.
 
Craveman said:
OK apologies. How about this scenario then: My friend legally bought a game which contains three disks...He has a notebook. Any way to play the game?
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You know, notebooks typically have disc drives too. I think you mean "netbook."

Also, what kind of pirate doesn't know how to use an ISO without a physical disc and drive? Even legitimate users have the software and know-how. My Alienware M11x has no disc drive but, ever since my PS3 died, I have been *magically* dumping my Blu-Ray Disc movies to ISO, transfering them over the network, and watching them on my TV with the Alienware M11x and a Windows Media Center remote control.
 
I'm impressed by most of the contributors in this thread.

Instead of being a dick to him, best to help him away from his pirating ways.

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Craveman said:
That will be a much easier option. I'll buy the digital copy as travelling at the mo and no way to have CD's delivered even if I wanted to go for Amazon option. Thanks for the link and sorry for original question.
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You can buy a disk version and register the key with Blizzard and the download the digital version from them.
 
On a completely unrelated topic, I happen to be watching At Worlds End right now.

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