Game can't see the CD

[dudemanjack]

I installed the game (typical install). That went fine, but when i try to run the game it shows the loading screen, but then it says "eject and insert your Civ3 CD, click ok and try again". Well i do that and it says the same thing...my CD rom is a CD-RW drive...i think it's 8x readable, and it is external. any ideas?
i want to play! grrr

-Jason

[player1]

That is normally happennig with PIRATED versions of the game.
In that case NO-CD crack (probably on the same CD, if not look at the web) will do the trick.

[Dida]

Re: Game can't see the CD

Originally posted by dudemanjack
I installed the game (typical install). That went fine, but when i try to run the game it shows the loading screen, but then it says "eject and insert your Civ3 CD, click ok and try again". Well i do that and it says the same thing...my CD rom is a CD-RW drive...i think it's 8x readable, and it is external. any ideas?
i want to play! grrr

-Jason

if you pirated that game, it's alrite with me, but i hope you will keep such thing private.

[player1]

It is strage, someone actually gets pirated game, and doesn't know how to install it.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

In the defense of the 'dude, it's not uncommon for copy protection to choke on external drives. In which case the fix is the same no-cd crack as if it was pirated.

[elrond1999]

Now, now, don't go chasing after him like that

Actually I think Civ3 is protected by SafeDisc 2, and one of the "features" of SafeDisc 2 is that you can't play the game, even with the original CD in a CD-R(w) drive So it will only play from a regular CD-ROM drive! Kinda sucks i'd say.

[dudemanjack]

bah...i guess my "pirated" version of the game comes with a nice tin and a copy of risk...well, at least risk works. always liked that board game

[Shiva]

Originally posted by elrond1999
Now, now, don't go chasing after him like that

Actually I think Civ3 is protected by SafeDisc 2, and one of the "features" of SafeDisc 2 is that you can't play the game, even with the original CD in a CD-R(w) drive So it will only play from a regular CD-ROM drive! Kinda sucks i'd say.

The original works fine in my CD-RW and in my DVD drive so I dont think thats the problem.