Need CD to run?

rikfarish · Post by **rikfarish** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 4:39 pm

This may sound like a stupid question, but, I have both versions of MSTS, the original one and the one that was released a few months later (the one with the class 50 on in etc). The thing is, the original one, once installed that was it I didn't need the disks, however version two requires me to have one of the disks in the cd-rom whilst running msts

My question to the masses is, how can I use version two without needing to have one of the msts disks in the cd-rom drive

Rik

CaldRail · Post by **CaldRail** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:34 pm

Possibly you can't. I note that FS2004 now needs a CD in order to load. Seems MS have changed their policy on this.

DrkAngel · Post by **DrkAngel** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:47 pm

Best way I can see is to download the updates for 1.2 and use the old 1.0 as then you can use it without the disks.

Could this be a hint that msts2 will also require the cd for it to run also...

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:06 pm

The original did require the use of the CD to run, though this was removed with the updates.

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:47 am

I find this happening when I install anything from CD.

Just click thru it and eventually it will go away.

I think its one of XP's "helpfull" little features.

johny · Post by **johny** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:30 am

Reboot your PC when you get that message and you will not get it again until you install something from any cd.

John

MichaelGreenhill · Post by **MichaelGreenhill** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 9:08 am

LucaZone wrote:The original did require the use of the CD to run, though this was removed with the updates.

The original did NOT need the CD's to run, I ran it for about 4 months without the CD before I installed the patches.

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 1:42 pm

MichaelGreenhill wrote:
LucaZone wrote:The original did require the use of the CD to run, though this was removed with the updates.
The original did NOT need the CD's to run, I ran it for about 4 months without the CD before I installed the patches.

And after the patch(both V1.1 and 1.2) for me, it still did can run without the CD!
I've heard at train-sim.com, you can put in ANY CD you want. As long as there is a CD, MSTS will start up fine.

bigvern · Post by **bigvern** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:15 pm

Can confirm FS2004 (which is excellent - I hope MTS2 matches the standard) needs one of the CD's (No.4 I think) in the drive to run. Funny thing about MTS1 - I have the original CD but patched. When I run it on the laptop(second licensed copy

), if I've had any CD in the drive before loading the editors it is asking for a CD both on starting the utility menu then the actual feature. However I don't get that if I go into the programme from a cold boot.

Also, I can just click on continue and the utilities run anyway.

Same thing doesn't happen with install on the main PC.

MichaelGreenhill · Post by **MichaelGreenhill** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:57 am

It's only asked me for the CD twice, and both times I clicked "Ignore" (or something similar) and the sim still worked fine, it just wanted to ask me a useless question for no reason. Gotta love Train Sim...

johncas · Post by **johncas** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 11:07 am

Thid was to stop copying when you dont need the cd to run people installed the game took the cd back to shop said it was not working and got money back thats why it is ileagl to trade in PC games at shops game wpn't allow it because you could of still have the game installed or copy the cd thats why you need the CD to run Also to make sure you have not installed the game on your mates Pc and all your firends pc's you can only run it on the PC you first install it on or all your mates would need to have the same cd inless you copy it

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 12:58 pm

Er...Johncas...pardon? My install of MSTS has never asked for the MSTS CD to be in the tray, or if it has told me there is no CD, a blank one will do

GAME offer a 14 day no questions asked return policy, so if people want to break the law, this is an open invite for them to do so.

Frankly, however, the PC software industry, like the music industry, is fighting a losing battle. A decent proportion of customers, which I hope remains the vast majority, will always be honest and will buy licensed software and legal music, the minority who are crooks and thieves, will cheat to avoid paying money to play/listen to something that others have paid for. This is human nature - the good guys and the bad guys.

CaldRail · Post by **CaldRail** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:05 pm

Funny how things work though. Recently music CD manufacturers started putting safeguards on discs to stop them playing on CD-roms, hoping that would stop people ripping tracks and uploading to their mates. Well it does. Now a much smaller number of people buy CD's. Well done music industry...

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 2:09 pm

People don't buy CDs because the music is ..

Like the railways, the music industry is run by greedy management who don't care about the public they pupport to serve or the people who do the work.

Pop idol sums it up.

chazcozens · Post by **chazcozens** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:02 pm

Just to say my copy of MSTS (bought the day it came out, then patched through downloads) has never asked for the CD to be in the drive, and that's been through 3 PC's (well, one box, ever improving innards!) and goodness knows how many re-installs!