02-06-2002, 04:54 PM | #1 |
Quintesson
Join Date: February 5, 2002
Location: Huntsville, AL, USA
Age: 63
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Folks,
Several questions for someone who is experienced at this. 1.) Has anyone out there installed everything (IWD/HOW or, especially, IWD/HOW/TOTL) and gotten it to work with a "noCD fix," so that no CD is needed to play? 2.) What is a good fix to use? What fix(es) is(are) needed? 3.) Any "glitchy" play because of such a fix? Editorial comment: I **HATE** it when I have to hunt down my CDs to plaay a game! I have two small, curious, somewhat slobbery and destructive children, and a wife who is somewhat jealous of my time, all on the prowl for my game CDs. Sometimes I have to bring them to work just to keep them safe. It is a royal pain to manage my CDs in a manner that keeps them safe *AND* assures that I can spontaneously put in a half hour here or there. A solution that allows me to just keep them safely tucked away at my work desk would be great! (No, I can't play IWD on my work computer: loading personal games on company computer = getting fired.) Regards, I |
02-06-2002, 07:23 PM | #2 |
The Magister
Join Date: December 16, 2001
Location: Deep 13
Age: 41
Posts: 124
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I also hate having to insert a CD to play a game. I play a lot of different games and can't imagine how tedious it would get having to change them out every time.
But to answer your question, I have been using the no CD for a while (with both HoW and ToTL) just fine. gamecopyworld.com should have what you need. I hope no anal-retentive people come in here spouting their crap about 'warez.' This is perfectly legal if you BOUGHT and OWN the game. Jeez, lighten up people. |
02-06-2002, 08:02 PM | #3 |
Quintesson
Join Date: February 5, 2002
Location: Huntsville, AL, USA
Age: 63
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Jonni,
Thanks a bunch! "No CD" posts are legal. (Thank you to the runners of this forum for their understanding regarding this subject.) Speaking of anal-retentive, I need to get a "No CD" fix for Diablo II. Sometimes it takes me 5 tries to get the game to play. All the while, Diablo's copy protection scheme is putting my CD player through all sorts of gyrations. |
02-13-2002, 01:22 PM | #4 |
Quintesson
Join Date: February 5, 2002
Location: Huntsville, AL, USA
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For anyone who might be interested,
I took Jonni Voodoo's advice, and executed the following steps, in order: 1.) Buy HoW. 2.) Download ToTL (72MB -> a high speed connection really helps). 3.) Download "No-CD fix" for ToTL. (I burned it onto a CD with ToTL.) 4.) Make sure that I have done the FULL install of IWD. 5.) Do a FULL install of HoW over IWD. 6.) Configure game to what I want, per instructions in the HoW manual and the configuration program. 7.) Install ToTL over HoW. 8.) Save a back-up copy of the main IWD ".exe" file, just in case. (I think it's "iwdmain.exe" or something like that.) 9.) Install HoW/ToTL "No-CD fix" over ToTL. And then I put all 4 of my IWD-related CDs in a very safe place and started gaming! This has worked great: I've put in about 16 hours of "No-CD" gaming in the Vale, over the course of this last week, on 1024x768 resolution, with absolutely no glitches, "gotchas," lock-ups, nor "weird" gameplay. This actually works! |
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