Copy Protection problems..

[jamieuk]

Hi,

This is my first post so please forgive any mistakes.

I have COD4, CODWaW, Rainbow Six Vegas2 installed on my PC .( which is 7 months old) I hadn't played any of these game for a few weeks, but when I did try to play them I keep getting the following message.....

...."Please insert the correct CD in the DVD Drive and restart"..

.....This with the very CD I bought with the game! Crysis, Far Cry 2 and Rainbow Six Vegas1 all run perfectly!

I have Googled this problem...loads of "solutions etc" but none of them seem to work. Activision or Ubisoft will not respond to my e-mails.

Can anyone please help me with this problem?

Thanking you in advance....

 

[Dwarf]

First of all, are the disks being recognised? What happens when you insert them without starting the game? Do you have Alcohol120 (or similar) installed? Some protection mechanisms look for such a program and, if they find it, refuse to run.

 

[jamieuk]

Thank you for you reply and interest Dwarf.

I do not have Alcohol or anything similar on my PC...never had had.

I insert the disks (COD4 or CODWaW.)
It appears on DVD RW drive (D COD4 MW. 0 bytes free of 6.7 GB.
From there I can click on that and it goes into the game. As soon as I select Single Player it says.."Please insert the correct Disk and restart the application"

On Rainbow Six Vegas 2 I insert the disk, Windows ask me to allow the game site to access my PC, I say yes..then the message comes up .."Insert the correct CD into the DVD Drive and restart the application"

But they did use to run perfectly well up to a couple of weeks ago!

 

[Dwarf]

It could be that a recent update on your system is causing this problem, and you should check with the game manufacturer's website to see if a patch is available. You could also check their forums to see if anyone else has come across this and what they have tried to solve the issue.

 

[stoneys-nutz]

Hello jamieuk,
The best way to get around this is to use a NO CD/DVD patch, i use them a lot so i don't have to keep changing the CD/DVD over all the time to play different games, it also keeps the disk clean as its in the case most of the time.
Hope this helps, good luck and post your results.