trouble with games in general

> "Blinkme1186" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message

> news:cb8499f42db29c5b8b939e1efbbb427a@nntp-gateway.com...

>>
>> I just built a brand new PC with Vista ultimate 64x the one catch is
>> that about 90% of my game collection is in .iso form, i actually own
>> the games but the discs are damaged beyond repair (dog got to the
>> game binder and went nuts) so i at least have the serial keys, but i
>> am trying to install them via virtual drive and no program actually
>> works so far

"John Lee Brown" <johnlbrown53Notospam@bellsouth.net> wrote in
news:89BE6949-DD78-4539-B525-0FC6B6858EA9@microsoft.com:

> If you have the .iso why don't you just create a new disk instead of
> using a virtual drive.

If you have damaged CDs EA will replace them for the cost of shipping
and handling. Check out http://support.ea.com. I'd wager most game
companies will do the same if the games are still available.

Burning the ISOs to disc would be the next logical step.

As for "Virtual" programs. I've used 3-5 different ISO mount type
programs, never had any problems using them, but the emulation lagged
the system fairly badly. If you have a midrange system, I suggest going
back to burning the discs and trying to install.

Of course most of these games won't work without using copy protection
cracks.

Maybe if you started by listing your system specs and the programs
you've tried to use we can start from there?

--
-A.

Just a suggestion if you are using DeamonTools to try and create a virtual
drive, Vista64 and Deamon tools will not create a virtual IDE drive only a
Virtual SCSI drive and this will not allow the majority of game iso's to run.

"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:

> > "Blinkme1186" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
> > news:cb8499f42db29c5b8b939e1efbbb427a@nntp-gateway.com...

> >>
> >> I just built a brand new PC with Vista ultimate 64x the one catch is
> >> that about 90% of my game collection is in .iso form, i actually own
> >> the games but the discs are damaged beyond repair (dog got to the
> >> game binder and went nuts) so i at least have the serial keys, but i
> >> am trying to install them via virtual drive and no program actually
> >> works so far

>
> "John Lee Brown" <johnlbrown53Notospam@bellsouth.net> wrote in
> news:89BE6949-DD78-4539-B525-0FC6B6858EA9@microsoft.com:
>

> > If you have the .iso why don't you just create a new disk instead of
> > using a virtual drive.

>
> If you have damaged CDs EA will replace them for the cost of shipping
> and handling. Check out http://support.ea.com. I'd wager most game
> companies will do the same if the games are still available.
>
> Burning the ISOs to disc would be the next logical step.
>
> As for "Virtual" programs. I've used 3-5 different ISO mount type
> programs, never had any problems using them, but the emulation lagged
> the system fairly badly. If you have a midrange system, I suggest going
> back to burning the discs and trying to install.
>
> Of course most of these games won't work without using copy protection
> cracks.
>
> Maybe if you started by listing your system specs and the programs
> you've tried to use we can start from there?
>
> --
> -A.
>