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WabeWalker
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I have a computer that's now 5 months old. (Core i7, GTX 275, from Alienware)
I've been playing through a lot of new games this summer, and a few older ones as well - it's the slightly older ones that are causing me a few headaches.
Last night I installed 'Jade Empire', and although the game installed perfectly, whenever I launch the game all I get is the little spinning DVD icon, which after about one minute is replaced with a message informing me to insert the original DVD (even though the DVD is clearly in the drive).
I'm a persistent person, and on the 14'th or 15'th attempt the game launched and ran beautifully - this took about a half an hour. I can't go through this every time I play the game.
What's worrying here is that 'Medal of Honor: Airborne' did the exact same thing. I was never able to launch that game, though, so I broke down and bought a second copy from EA as a digital download, just to see if it would work. It did. That game (not the DVD version) works like a charm.
So that's two games that won't acknowledge that the DVDs are in the drive.
Any suggestions? I'm completely stumped. I can usually solve a problem when other people are experiencing the same problems, but in both cases, nobody has claimed that either Jade or Airborne refuse to acknowledge the disc in the tray.
Is it possible to copy the entire game disc to the hard drive?
I've got a Blu Ray drive on order - could I try running the games from this new drive that's in the mail?
Is SecureRom possibly the culprit here?
This is frustrating, because I don't know how to proceed?
I've been playing through a lot of new games this summer, and a few older ones as well - it's the slightly older ones that are causing me a few headaches.
Last night I installed 'Jade Empire', and although the game installed perfectly, whenever I launch the game all I get is the little spinning DVD icon, which after about one minute is replaced with a message informing me to insert the original DVD (even though the DVD is clearly in the drive).
I'm a persistent person, and on the 14'th or 15'th attempt the game launched and ran beautifully - this took about a half an hour. I can't go through this every time I play the game.
What's worrying here is that 'Medal of Honor: Airborne' did the exact same thing. I was never able to launch that game, though, so I broke down and bought a second copy from EA as a digital download, just to see if it would work. It did. That game (not the DVD version) works like a charm.
So that's two games that won't acknowledge that the DVDs are in the drive.
Any suggestions? I'm completely stumped. I can usually solve a problem when other people are experiencing the same problems, but in both cases, nobody has claimed that either Jade or Airborne refuse to acknowledge the disc in the tray.
Is it possible to copy the entire game disc to the hard drive?
I've got a Blu Ray drive on order - could I try running the games from this new drive that's in the mail?
Is SecureRom possibly the culprit here?
This is frustrating, because I don't know how to proceed?
