Crysis clicking...

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SO I broke down and bought Crysis the other day. I went to install it, and the disk would not auto-play. Instead it made these weird clicking noises from the drive.
"Crap" I thought, my drive died. Luckily I did some research, and saw that someone else on the Crysis EA forums had a similar issue and just put it in and out of the drive a few times and eventually ot recognized, after clicking a lot.

So I followed suit, and after ~40 seconds of clicking (sound like a dying hard drive) it went on like normal.

But now, If the Crysis DVD is in the drive when i boot up the PC, it clicks for a minute or so. Also, if I want to play, I have to wait for it to cycle through it's minute of clicking before I can do so.

Any ideas on how to stop this? Can it damage my drive?

EDIT: BTW, 2 hrs in and my opinion is that it's a great loking game with mediocre gameplay
 
Fairly sure this is to do with the copy protection system, it may help to flash your optical drive to the newest firmware, goto the manufacturers website for instructions on how to do this.

As for gameplay, with it's sandbox nature gameplay is really what you make of it, you can rambo through rather boringly like any rather tedius and generic first person shooter, or you can use the world and your abilities to the fullest advantage and aproach the missions from many different ways which are fun and more interesting in my opinion.
 
Indeed, I too thought my drive was dying.
it was made especially worse since it was a brand new drive (Lite-On) in a brand new rig; I haven't even played regular DVDs and CDs in it yet. I leave the Crysis disc in my drive all the time, so whenever I restarted my computer, I would hear the clicking.

Thankfully it looks to be caused only by the SecuROM protection and all my other discs make no such noise.
 
Kevlarman said:
Indeed, I too thought my drive was dying.
it was made especially worse since it was a brand new drive (Lite-On) in a brand new rig; I haven't even played regular DVDs and CDs in it yet. I leave the Crysis disc in my drive all the time, so whenever I restarted my computer, I would hear the clicking.

Thankfully it looks to be caused only by the SecuROM protection and all my other discs make no such noise.
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Odd... I too have a lite-on drive.
 
I just came upon this thread. I was wondering about the clicking sound as well. Like all of you, I too have the lite-on.

I did notice that it causes my box to take a little longer to boot up when it is making the "clicking" noises. My box boots up much faster when I don't have the DVD in the drive when booting.
 
mine does it too....lite on drive as well....want another wrench in this...

I have dual lite on drives...exact same drives except one does lightscribe the other does not. They are 1 letter apart for their part number. The lightscribe drive does NOT click, the non lightscribe drive does :confused:
 
LOL

Exact opposite. I only have one drive (w/lightscribe) and it does click.
 
That's strange. My DVD drive doesn't click at all with Crysis (or any other game for that matter) but it's a NEC/Sony.
 
I have a pioneer dvd-rw drive in my laptop, and a different set of pioneer dvd-rw drives in my desktop. I have not heard any clicking noises. I use the same cd for both computers.

I guess i'm lucky, or maybe poineer drives are just awesome?
 
I have an Optiarc SATA that clicks, and a Plextor PATA that doesn't.
 
I believe I've read someplace that the clicking is, (for whatever reason), localized to SATA based DVD roms.

I thought the same at first, "clicking, crap it's eating my disk!" After letting it sit for a while clicking it finally kicked up and ran; as others have stated I believe it has something to do with the flavur of copy protection used... great choice by the publisher there...
 
I have a PATA (samsund I think) and it does this. Just thought it was a badly made disk. Had no idea that others were dealing with this.
 
Just use a fixed .exe and put the disk away. No clicky or anything else to worrry about...


Ply
 
Confirmed also clicking with a Sata Samsung 203N model. Soon as dtpro can get a new fix gonna make an image and just run that.


*also as a sidenote: coincidence or not my older samsung sata broke a week after I bought crysis (good ol newegg 6 month rma ftw). The laser or mechanism responsible for lead in stopped functioning.
 
my lite-on SATA DVDRW drive clicks like mad with the crysis disk as well, wow and here i thought it was just me.
 
Before Crysis my DVD drives worked great. After Crysis installation Both my external and internal DVD drives click upon reading any DVD, and don't read newly inserted DVD's half the time. About 50% of my data DVD burning is now corrupt, about 1/3 of the way through the same DVD pack/spindle that worked 100% of the time before. Crysis wasn't even worth the $30, much less two DVD drives. I suppose it could be coincidence, but having 2 drives fuck up after 2 years of operation at the exact same time after loading Crysis in each of them? Eh, probably not.
 
Not sure, I refuse to use my disc to play. Daemon tools + YASU for me.

Don't recall a clicking on my LITE-ON for the short period I did use the disc though.
 
I used to work for a copy protection company and I always use a cracked exe for my copy protected games.
I cant elaborate, this is fyi.
 
i have the clicking noise to, on my toshiba/samsung sata dvd drive. It plays fine though.
 
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