Playing Games and my Cd Rom

whenever i play online games that require me to have my cd in the drive while playing during the game, the cd rom is always spinning and it is continely reading data off the cd which is slower then the readin it off the harddrive. I know that isnt supposed to do this becuase i play these games at friendsa house and it doesnt dot hat. THe problem with it is that the game lags alot becuase it cant read the data fast enough. So the way i had been fixing it is by once the game starts and checks for a cd i take out the cd, and somehow it figures out that it should read fromt he harddrive and then it does that. Now, i tried to do that with starcraft and it wont work, i get a bosd becuase it doesnt figure out that i dont want it to read from the cd rom. Does anyone know why it does this, or has this happened to anyone else?

You can use VirtualDrive to copy all the cd content to you HD .

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Originally posted by BrandonTurner
whenever i play online games that require me to have my cd in the drive while playing during the game, the cd rom is always spinning and it is continely reading data off the cd which is slower then the readin it off the harddrive. I know that isnt supposed to do this becuase i play these games at friendsa house and it doesnt dot hat. THe problem with it is that the game lags alot becuase it cant read the data fast enough. So the way i had been fixing it is by once the game starts and checks for a cd i take out the cd, and somehow it figures out that it should read fromt he harddrive and then it does that. Now, i tried to do that with starcraft and it wont work, i get a bosd becuase it doesnt figure out that i dont want it to read from the cd rom. Does anyone know why it does this, or has this happened to anyone else?

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The reason why it does that is because it prevents people from using CD cracks so that they can play without the cd. ;) Get a faster cd drive.

But it doesnt do this at my friends house and we play the same game. I will try the virtual drive thing and see how that goes.

Your drive may be screwed up, if it makes loud noise too then it could be a sign that the subdata readers are damaged (I think it's subdata... where the copy protection is stored).

Actually it may be Subchannel data, I can't remember.

Mhh the virual drive doesnt seem to work. Myabe i was doing it wrong. I changed my normal cd drive to letter 'Z' and then made a virtual drive letter 'E' and give it a path to a folder i had copied the contents of the cd into. And when i ran starcraft it says it can find the cd in the cd rom drive. But when i change the cd rom drive to 'E' again the game works fine. Also Sastraxi is there any way i can run a check on my cd rom drive to see if that is messed up. I thought that maybe msinfo.exe(or somethign like that) would run a scan on it but the screen just goes gray when i run it. But i could be wrong, i just had a slight memory that msinfo was a program.

No, AFAIK that won't do it (Msinfo). And, you've done it all wrong:

http://www.undisker.com/

Do that, and rip the disc to ISO. Then, mount it as a virtual drive:

http://www.daemon-tools.com/

Then you're done...

works wondorfuly!

Glad I could be of service, marm

Hehe ;)