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declan_davis

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    Playing games from ISO files
    « on: August 24, 2009, 06:12:04 AM »
    I have a game as an ISO image file.

    I'm using MagicISO virtual CD/DVD manager and have Windows Vista.

    I downloaded the ISO file and then mounted it using MagicISO.
    I installed the game from the virtual F-drive and everything went normally.
    The installation wizard finished and there was an icon for the game on my desktop.

    When I try to run the game, my computer is looking in my physical E-drive.
    It asks me to insert the disk; which I can't, I have an ISO image file mounted in my virual F-drive.

    How do I get my computer to look in the virtual F-drive for the game instead of the physical E-drive?
    There were no drive options during installation, only where the files would be saved.

    I've even tried renaming the drives, but that doesn't work either.

    Please help!

    Best wishes,

    Declan.

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      Re: Playing games from ISO files
      « Reply #1 on: August 24, 2009, 06:33:48 AM »
      Out of spite can I ask were you got them?
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      Re: Playing games from ISO files
      « Reply #2 on: August 24, 2009, 06:39:04 AM »
      sounds like the game detects emulated drives and refuses to use them.
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      declan_davis

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        Re: Playing games from ISO files
        « Reply #3 on: August 24, 2009, 06:44:43 AM »
        I'm not sure it's that. My laptop tries to use the physical E-drive. You can here the disk spinning around. If the game was detecting an emulated drive then it would look in the E-drive.

        I run the game and it looks in the E-drive. I don't have the game disk in the E-drive so it tells me to put the game disk into the E-drive.

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          Re: Playing games from ISO files
          « Reply #4 on: August 24, 2009, 06:45:41 AM »
          *wouldn't look in the E-drive.

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          Re: Playing games from ISO files
          « Reply #5 on: August 24, 2009, 07:07:57 AM »
          It's simply because this is a pirated game me thinks and you have not done the thing of which we are not at liberty to tell you.





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          Re: Playing games from ISO files
          « Reply #6 on: August 24, 2009, 07:11:13 AM »
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          I downloaded the ISO file

          Read the rules please.
          http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,58736.0.html

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          Re: Playing games from ISO files
          « Reply #7 on: August 24, 2009, 07:11:55 AM »
          I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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          Re: Playing games from ISO files
          « Reply #8 on: August 24, 2009, 07:16:52 AM »
          Now it is.  ::)

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          Re: Playing games from ISO files
          « Reply #9 on: August 28, 2009, 05:35:40 PM »
          For the record...this game might not be pirated.  However, we still can't help with these problems because even if you legally own the game, we would still be giving instructions on how it could be played illegally.  Just thought this needed a bit of clearing up.
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