Chiles4
12-26-2001, 09:14 AM
Many people are posting that they either cannot install or run MP from their CD, DVD, or CD-RW drives. This is undoubtedly due to the copy protection that is being used on the MP CD. I started to post about this about two months ago when I started playing the MP demo. Ironically, I finally got the full version and I could not run the game either! Both my CD and CD-RW drive would install it but neither would play the game. Unfortunately, I had to use methods not approved by this forum to play my full retail version of the game.
I tried using the CD-ROM "slowdown" program found at www.cdspeed2000.com (http://www.cdspeed2000.com) to reduce the speed of my CD-RW but MP would not work then either. My burner is fairly new - a 12x from Lite-On. The only drive I found able to play the game so far was a Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM drive I installed in a friend's computer.
There is nothing about this in the MP Support FAQ because there is never a solution to this type of problem - except possibly a firmware upgrade to your CD-Rom drive.
I wish I had a solution to offer. Seems to me that the best bets are the newer DVD-ROM drives. And MP is not the first game to suffer from this problem.
I tried using the CD-ROM "slowdown" program found at www.cdspeed2000.com (http://www.cdspeed2000.com) to reduce the speed of my CD-RW but MP would not work then either. My burner is fairly new - a 12x from Lite-On. The only drive I found able to play the game so far was a Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM drive I installed in a friend's computer.
There is nothing about this in the MP Support FAQ because there is never a solution to this type of problem - except possibly a firmware upgrade to your CD-Rom drive.
I wish I had a solution to offer. Seems to me that the best bets are the newer DVD-ROM drives. And MP is not the first game to suffer from this problem.