Playing a PC game w/o the CD

Jason · **Posted:** December 30th, 2009, 12:48 pm

I want to be able to play rise of nations w/o the CD so me and my brother can play together.(We are bored).

I know PC games can be played w/o the disk and w/o steam but I dont know how.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 30th, 2009, 12:48 pm

Mr Pink · **Posted:** December 30th, 2009, 1:05 pm

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/eng/home

http://www.alcohol-soft.com/

My top 3 favorites.

trekkie · **Posted:** December 30th, 2009, 1:39 pm

gamecopyworld.com

get your CD crack here, it's all legal, you're allowed to use them if you bought the game anyway. it's just so that you don't need to always pop in the CD to play

going to move to tech talk since it's mostly about how to play without a CD than about a game

Arvalin · **Posted:** December 30th, 2009, 4:23 pm

Gonna have to second gamecopyworld.com, just use a cracked exe. Mounting ISO's works but its a waste of resources.

Aquw VettelS 776 · **Posted:** December 30th, 2009, 5:23 pm

Rip and mount is my preferred method. CD cracks are temperamental and don't always work. Plus you have to search around just to find it in the first place.

Jason · **Posted:** December 30th, 2009, 5:32 pm

aquw 776 wrote:

Rip and mount is my preferred method. CD cracks are temperamental and don't always work. Plus you have to search around just to find it in the first place.

What does that mean?

Adbot · **Posted:** December 30th, 2009, 5:32 pm

Arvalin · **Posted:** December 30th, 2009, 6:13 pm

gamecopyworld covers 98% of the games out there, all you need to do is download the file (usually less than 10MB) and replace the current exe with it. Mounting works but your stuck with a 6GB+ image of the disk sitting on your HDD.

Mounting ISO's used to be very popular with older games that read files off a CD. Reading files from an image that resided on your HDD was much faster than any disk drive at the time and allowed for better game performance. Since todays game just verify that your game is legit and reads all the needed info from your HDD a cracked Exe is the most common and easiest way to go.

Bonsai99 · **Posted:** January 4th, 2010, 6:53 pm

cracked exes are very risky to download and can result in very harmful viruses,only download cracked exes if you have proper anti-virus