Bootcamp: Cannot Recognise CD/DVD

[ICEBreaker]

Dear gamers,

I've been trying to install PC games on my bootcamp partition but a couple of them seem to have the same problems.

I've been able to install them without any problems. However, when I try to play them, they insist I have inserted the wrong CD/DVD. I have no problems on my PC with the same game.

Does anyone else have this bizarre problem whereby the Mac can't recognise the CD/DVD during licence checking? Thanks.

JC

 

[Huntn]

I've not run into this problem.

 

[ICEBreaker]

Oh I see. Thanks...

Not sure why it happens for several (not all) of my games from various publishers.

 

[Chone]

It sounds like the games that don't work are probably SecuROM, you should look for support with SecuROM and your publisher.

It could be a problem with drive emulation software, if you have Daemon Tools, disable it temporarily, also if you have two drives there may be some conflict.

What Mac do you have?

 

[Huntn]

Oh I see. Thanks...

Sorry for the unhelpful post. Not messing with you. If you find a solution, please post. Thanks!

 

[ICEBreaker]

Hi Chone, thanks for your post. I don't think my games require any security. I don't like to use the original discs so I make CD-R copies, or DVD-R copies and use those instead. I understand you can't do that with newer games, but all my games are quite old. I have no problem playing games in this manner on my PC/XP, but I want to play it on my iMac (alu), since it has a larger screen. Unfortunately, I have the problem described. I'll take a look at SecureROM and actually try the opposite and use Daemon tools.

That's OK Huntn. I don't mind your reply at all. It's important for me to know whether my problem is unique or whether I am missing an important point about Bootcamp that everyone else knows about. So it's good to know that you have no such problems.

 

[maccompaq]

Why don't you use mtpxxl?

 

[ICEBreaker]

Hi MacCompaq! What's MTPXXL??