Faulty Crysis Disk

managed to work mine. basically just put dvd back in dvd rom dont be scared of the cliking sound and wait about 30 sec to 1 min in it starts to spin :)
 
managed to work mine. basically just put dvd back in dvd rom dont be scared of the cliking sound and wait about 30 sec to 1 min in it starts to spin
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Same thing happened to me also, just let it sound like it's braking and it eventually works
 
samsung drives and securom don't like each other on certain games, stick another drive in bet it installs 1st time.
 
psychas said:
managed to work mine. basically just put dvd back in dvd rom dont be scared of the cliking sound and wait about 30 sec to 1 min in it starts to spin :)
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Same.
I have a liteon LH-20A1S (its sata)

Dvd is 6.3gb so must be dual layer, also virtual drives or other tools wont prevent a disc from being read or the game installing.

I've also had this with music cd's but have always got them to work.
 
I can't get mine to work in either of the DVD drive attached to my pc both of which are IDE drives.

A creative 12* reader and a Pioneer re-writer.

The creative give the message

Windows cannot read the disc in drive L:,
Make sure the disc uses a format windows recognises. If the disk is unformatted, you need to format it before use.

The other drive doesn't even know the disk is in the drive.

All other games work fine in both drives, even CoD 4.

Searching on google brings up a lot of other people having this problem.

I imagine it's disk security software that's stopping it from working. If anyone finds a fix to the problem please post to this forum.

Thanks,

Taff
 
Supertaff said:
I can't get mine to work in either of the DVD

Thanks,

Taff
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Cod4 uses safdisc, which is different to crysis( securom) do you have bioshock? or any other new securom protected game that works?
Might be a bad batch of discs that wont read in some drives rather than the protection. It was starforce that had the bad rep for producing hard to read discs.

Try updating both of your drives firmware, disconnect one of them maybe?
 
I had a really odd clicking sound for a while on my disk then it finally recognised it and installed fine, I heard the clicking is a result of the disk being dual layer...not so sure myself but im fine with it atm.
 
Mine wasnt the Special Edition. Refuses to work at all. There was a comment on the EA forums claiming it was the newer burners because of their abilities. :rolleyes: Faulty disks i say, never had any problem with ANY games or disks, EA are claiming its due to the abilities of the newer burners and that compatibility is poor. Yet ive never had a problem with any of EA's games before . . . . . .
 
Can you swap the drive that it worked on into the system you want to play it on? Or was the XP one it worked on the system you wanted to play it on ?
 
mine was annoyingly playing up also took ages to work i had to eject it and put it in several times, and bash the tray a bit also :/ damn special edition :(
 
Also had some odd clicking on mine (samsung drive), AVG free also flagged one of the files during the install as a virus!!

And to top it off my pc won't boot properly with the game disc in the drive, it sits there doing something with the drive (I can see the led flickering away)
 
I also had the odd clicking sound on my Samsung SH-183LBEBN sata drive for the first 15/30 seconds then it installed fine. Plays fine too.

Its just a case of compatibility issues like ea said, nothing more.
 
Finished up having to dig out an ancient Pioneer drive after my writemaster refused to recognise the disk, needless to say it fired up instantly so the drive is now going to be a permanent fixture
 
As i said before I had the clicking but forgot to mention i have a samsung sata drive too, so there may be a common denominator.
 
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