I play with no CD all the time, but it's not a patch. I bought a 'program' called 'Game Drive' at an electronics store. Before I explain, know that it won't fix your current problem cause you need the cd drive working to get this up and running. And I do not share this information to promote piracy of cds, just for conventional ease of play.
Anyway, what it does is creates infinate 'virtual cd drives' on your computer. All that means is that it convinces your computer that you have more cd drives than you really do. Then, Game Drive copies a whole game cd and make a VCD file of it. When you open Game Drive's manager window, you can create all the 'virtual cd drives' you want and as many VCD's as you want (or your hard drive has room for
)... then, all you do is drag the VCD icon into the virtual cd drive, and the computer thinks you're actually putting a physical cd in a cd drive. This allows you to play with no cd's... like me. All I did was install BG2 on a full install and make a VCD of disc 2 (the play disc) and now when I wanna play, I just open BG2 and it thinks the cd is already in.
It works really well with other games too. I borrowed games off of people and made VCD's of them and I can play whole games now with no cd's... and if the game gets corrupt from mods or whatever, no need to reborrow the cds. As long as you have VCD's of each disc, you can reinstall the whole 4cd BG2 game from VCDs. Just be careful to 'eject VCD' when you're done, or when you restart your computer it'll still think there's however many cds in drives and start the Autoplay for each one, like it normally does when you restart with a cd in the drive. *shrug* Maybe it's something to look into, cause like I said, it works fine for me [img]smile.gif[/img]
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[ 02-26-2003, 10:02 PM: Message edited by: 605 ]