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| Thread ID: 83300 | 2007-09-27 01:24:00 | Playing CD games without the CD! | Adrain (12668) | Press F1 |
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| 595359 | 2007-09-30 20:41:00 | Yeah Alcohol 120% is the best option though if you want a freeware alternative, check out CdBurnerXP (www.megaupload.com). | jason_f90 (3544) | ||
| 595360 | 2007-09-30 20:50:00 | Ok, mite pay to start a new thread on setting up a Virtual Computer but anyway, heres some advice anyway. You could go with Wratterus's suggestion and use Virtual PC 2007, or use what I prefer: VM Ware Workstation (http://www.vmware.com/). Now this is a fairly expensive program and if you do not have the money (or want to spend this sort of money) you can get VM Player (www.vmware.com) for free. When using the player, you don't have quite the same amount of options and abilities as VM Workstation, but for free, it will most likely do everything you want it to do. Basically what a virtual computer is, is an operating system/s running on top of your existing OS. When you create the virtual computer, you are setting aside a portion of your hdd for it to run on. Everything that happens on your virtual computer is separate from your base OS. So you have to install Windows *, all your drivers, etc etc just like a normal pc. The advantage: When something goes wrong with your virtual pc, like you get a nasty virus, trojan spyware, etc, all you have to do, is delete the virtual pc file, and start again. No harm has come to your base OS. Which is why I use a virtual computer for most of my web browsing. I don't need to worry about firewalls, AV, spyware, anything. You will naturally want to do a virus scan on anything you download on your virtual computer, before you move it to your base OS and use it. Decide on what program you are going to use, then I can give you a hand to set it up. (if you need help, that is) Just so you get an idea of what it looks like, here (www.imagef1.net.nz)is a screen shot of my computer while running VM Workstation |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 595361 | 2007-09-30 22:26:00 | I disagree. He owns the games. I myself use NOCDs to eliminate the annoying CD check. I own the games also. I have found that some games run ALOT better with the CD Crack. They arnt constantly slowing down to read the CD\DVD, & startup alot faster. Plus I dont have to get out of my chair to put in a CD |
steveroby (9470) | ||
| 595362 | 2007-09-30 22:31:00 | I have found that some games run ALOT better with the CD Crack. They arnt constantly slowing down to read the CD\DVD, & startup alot faster. Plus I dont have to get out of my chair to put in a CD Cracks are buggy and sometimes do things that they aren't supposed to. Cleverly written games, make cracks very hard to work properly. Often you will find that when using a crack, there are random bugs in the game. I tried using a crack for Call of Duty 2, but I could never get passed a certain level, because there was a killing thread error, which allowed infinite numbers of troops to pour out of a particular house. Used the cd, and it worked fine. Virtualization will pwn cracks any day. |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 595363 | 2007-09-30 23:43:00 | Ok, mite pay to start a new thread on setting up a Virtual Computer but anyway, heres some advice anyway. You could go with Wratterus's suggestion and use Virtual PC 2007, or use what I prefer: VM Ware Workstation (http://www.vmware.com/). Now this is a fairly expensive program and if you do not have the money (or want to spend this sort of money) you can get VM Player (www.vmware.com) for free. When using the player, you don't have quite the same amount of options and abilities as VM Workstation, but for free, it will most likely do everything you want it to do. Basically what a virtual computer is, is an operating system/s running on top of your existing OS. When you create the virtual computer, you are setting aside a portion of your hdd for it to run on. Everything that happens on your virtual computer is separate from your base OS. So you have to install Windows *, all your drivers, etc etc just like a normal pc. The advantage: When something goes wrong with your virtual pc, like you get a nasty virus, trojan spyware, etc, all you have to do, is delete the virtual pc file, and start again. No harm has come to your base OS. Which is why I use a virtual computer for most of my web browsing. I don't need to worry about firewalls, AV, spyware, anything. You will naturally want to do a virus scan on anything you download on your virtual computer, before you move it to your base OS and use it. Decide on what program you are going to use, then I can give you a hand to set it up. (if you need help, that is) Just so you get an idea of what it looks like, here (www.imagef1.net.nz)is a screen shot of my computer while running VM Workstation Is there a difference between the virtual drives that you set up with alcohol and vm player? |
waldo (12864) | ||
| 595364 | 2007-09-30 23:47:00 | Is there a difference between the virtual drives that you set up with alcohol and vm player? A vitual drive is just a virtual DVD-ROM drive(s). vm player (VMWare player) creates an entire virtual computer that you can install an OS (eg windows) onto it as though it were a physical computer. |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 595365 | 2007-09-30 23:49:00 | Is there a difference between the virtual drives that you set up with alcohol and vm player? Yes and No. While they are both using Virtual technology there are vast differences. VM Player allows you to run a complete virtual computer on top of your base OS. While alcohol only allows you to add virtual cd/dvd drives to your existing OS Edit: so we both post at the same time... :-) |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 595366 | 2007-10-02 13:32:00 | Well holy cr*p! :eek: I don't think I can thank every one enough here! But..... thanks everyone! :D Guess I have more than enough to keep me going for a while! Thanks again everyone! Adrain :thumbs: |
Adrain (12668) | ||
| 595367 | 2007-10-06 17:47:00 | Does any one know how to play games without the CD being used? I have a number of games I 'get involved with' that require a CD to play them. But I get fed up keep changing the CDs over when changing to another game. Games like Sim City, Halo, Warhammer 40,000, Area 51 even The Simpsons are great, but I'm so crap (Opps! Can I say that? :horrified ) at playing most of them I change to another game rather quickly when I start losing. I only play for fun, not 'the cup'! Then I go back to it when I forget how abysmal I was at it! So then I have to dig out the CD from where I've 'laid it to rest'. If it's ill eagle to do, I guess I'll just have to carry on, but I feel that some one must know a work around at least! Cheers, Adrain :D PS All the games are bought, legal and have MY serial codes with! You can use magiciso to create iso file of your game cd. then mounting iso file as virtual cd/dvd so that you can play game without cd. http://www.magiciso.com/ |
bartle (12865) | ||
| 595368 | 2007-10-07 06:41:00 | there are many programs which i will not discuss in here but the general rule is only run games without media is when you only you have the original and not shared or downloaded | JUST INSANE (6682) | ||
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