Help Me Burn Copies Of Some Games!!

Factual Questions
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  • Well, no, not really, -but this does concern CD security.
  • I recently bought a game (Unreal Tournament G.O.T.Y.) and the patch for it will not install properly. The documentation says that this game requires a CD-ROM to install properly, and that a DVD won’t work. My computer only has a DVD and the game itself did seem install properly, but it still bombs out every now and then. When you run the patch exe, it asks you to insert the game CD but when I do it says that it can’t find a file ‘botpack.u’, and it doesn’t install the patch. I can go to Start>Find Files or Folders though, and the file in question shows up just like normal. -Which means to install the patch I may have to go out and actually buy a CD-ROM, which cost -uh, -like 25 bucks or so. It’s an outrage. ~ I did not know that there was such a thing as a regular CD that would not read in a DVD-ROM drive though. In general terms, what goes on in this situation? What does a regular CD drive do that a DVD-ROM drive can’t? - MC
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“I did not know that there was such a thing as a regular CD that would not read in a DVD-ROM drive though.”

There isn’t unless you’re talking about an older first generation DVD drive (1.5 - 2 years old) trying to read a burned CD (which isn’t your situation.)

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I have an older DVD drive that takes about two minutes to recognize a none DVD cd. I would never use it to play a game from. It tries to identify dvd formats in the drive first, and then data or music cds. They recognise more cd formats and take longer to identify what a cd holds. Thus present are pauses in the program that accesss this cd.

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My first thought would be to try putting in the CD first (hold SHIFT so it doesn’t start the program) and checking the directory. That way Windows could already know what format it is before the patch program looks at the drive. Of course, that may not work at all.