Playing games from ISO image files

[declan_davis]

I have a game as an ISO image file.

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

I was told that gaming speeds can be up to five times faster when using
an ISO image file compared to a CD/DVD. So I converted a game of mine
into an ISO image file. I mounted it using MagicISO, and tried to run
the game. My machine was looking in the physical E-drive and was
asking me to insert the disk into the E-drive. I assumed this was because
the installation had been made using the disk and the E-drive. I decided
to uninstalled the game and to reinstall using the ISO image file mounted in
the virtual F-drive.

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 still looking in my physical
E-drive. It asks me to insert the disk; which I don't want to do: I want to
use the 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.

 

[Aastii]

well you see, i will say this to you:

All games are difficult to make an image file of that works because you have to create another file to tell the image what to do. Besides that, consider the following.

If you put a game as an image file, install, blah de blah de blah, it WILL find it if it is legit beacuse it looks in all drives before it says "can't find it". Imagine if you have 2 DVD drives. You can install it and run it from one. You can then close the game, swap the disc between the drives and it will still play...same thing from a virtual drive.

So, this would lead me to believe that you are trying to ask how to run a pirated game which isn't allowed if you read the rules.

You are giving our name a bad press declan

 

[OvenMaster]

I remember an article from an old Maximum PC magazine that described this exact thing.
You can't use a virtual image due to copy protection schemes. You have to use an actual disc in an optical drive. You can thank pirates for this crap.

 

[Vizy]

Have you tried mounting the image and then unmounting it? Hopefully autorun would be enabled then the game context should run. Or, what you can do is, if it is a popular game, you can search for NO CD patches. These things would replace the .exe file in the game folder that runs the game so that the CD isn't necessary. If you would google teh name of the game followed by no cd it should come up with a patch from some mass file distribution website. Use at your own discretion though, these are all (usually) from users such as your self, not actually made from the game creator.

I dont think he pirated it, he would of just burned it to a dvd then.

 

[Aastii]

Have you tried mounting the image and then unmounting it? Hopefully autorun would be enabled then the game context should run. Or, what you can do is, if it is a popular game, you can search for NO CD patches. These things would replace the .exe file in the game folder that runs the game so that the CD isn't necessary. If you would google teh name of the game followed by no cd it should come up with a patch from some mass file distribution website. Use at your own discretion though, these are all (usually) from users such as your self, not actually made from the game creator.

I dont think he pirated it, he would of just burned it to a dvd then.

Even if he didn't, you still shouldn't be posting about no CD patches when you can't make 100% sure.

Also Declan, if you are reading this, i wouldn't use the no-cd patches, most of them are either in virus infested sites or are viruses themselves. Just play from the disc, you aren't going to see that much of a performance increase because it doesn't run from the disc. If it did that, it wouldn't install, it runs from your hard drive and the disc is there to say "yes, they have the game"