Call of Duty 2

Burning Software Copy Protection
#1

This has been proven to be SafeDisk 4.60 and doesn’t want to play on my system. The original [patched to v1.01] keeps failing the DVD check saying it has detected emulation software. I contacted Activision and they said exactly what you would expect them to say - effectively “turn it off or uninstall”. Well I turned AnyDVD off and it made no difference, so its obviously objecting to something that is installed but not running I checked running tasks in task manager.

I have seen many posts that say you have to uninstall certain programs to make a certain game run, but in my personal experience I have always succeeded in running those reported games [well those I’d bought] without uninstalling, instead turning off the CD-Tray or disabling AnyDVD or something similar.

So my question; Has anyone got this to run with any of the following Software installed;

AnyDVD 5.9.4.1
CloneCD 4.3.1.9
Nero 5.5.10.56
IsoBuster 1.5
DiscJuggler [version unknown]
FireBurner 2.21
CloneDVD [latest]

Norton Internet Security 2005

Admittedly I could probably uninstall many of those pieces of software and not miss them as they don’t get used that much - but I don’t think that SafeDisk will be objecting to IsoBuster, DiscJuggler or FireBurner and the version of CloneCD I have didn’t come with the Clone VirtualDrive - and I never installed it from previous releases either.

I include NIS as it must inject some code into the OS around the network and disk access layers to perform its security functions, and I wonder if it is objecting to that…?

Any help appreciated.

#2

My guess still is that it’s objecting to CloneCD and. in particular, to the hide cdr media component.

#3

But that isn’t running…! Guess I might really have to uninstall it then…!

#4

You have to uninstall CCD otherwise COD2 won’t run.

#5

I made a backup of my call of duty2 collector’s edition onto a single dvd and it runs from disk.

#6

OK thanks folks. I feel an uninstall coming on…

#7

I agree Orinoco. I too feel an uninstall coming on. But I will be uninstalling the software whose company has choosen to include built-in incompatibility and built-in inoperability. I will also refuse to buy anymore products from Activison.