Optical drive broken - can I install Arkham City?

Operation · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:12

Sorry, this is no doubt a really stupid question...

I bought a CD copy of Batman Arkham city but cannot install it as none of the Sata2 ports on my mobo appear to be functioning and I have no spare sata3 ports for my DVD drive.

Is there anyway of downloading the game by legitimate means and using the cd Key I have to activate the game? Can a demo downloaded on steam be activated to the full game? (sounds very unlikely admittedly).

Any help would be much appreciated.

On Holiday · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:16

Use a torrent and download it. If you have the full copy on disc / CD key, then why not.

Operation · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:18

I could only see cracked versions via torrent. I'll have a closer look.

cHk4 · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:21

Most of the ones on torrents don't come cracked, it's normally after install apply this patch etc so if you don't you should be good to go.

barmyllama · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:22

If your CD key is legitimate then it makes no difference where you get the data from to activate that key.

Edit: The demo and the full game are the same size, so maybe you can download the demo and then activate it after the time runs out.

jamesfreddie · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:24

You could send your motherboard back to gigabyte and they will send you a B3 model as a replacement.

Operation · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:24

Ok, cheers guys. I'll give it a go.

There's nothing silly like the game needing the cd to run is there?

Operation · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:26

jamesfreddie said:
You could send your motherboard back to gigabyte and they will send you a B3 model as a replacement.

Still?

Amnesia · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:28

Even if you do own the game you wouldn't legally be allowed to dl it through torrents.

jamesfreddie · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:59

Operation said:
Still?

Yep.

You get a 3 year warranty with ALL gigabyte boards so you should be able to send it back.

Roadkillv1 · 23 Jun 2012 at 12:29

have you tried checking if you can register the code on steam and getting the full version? works with some games, they have a list. just try it, might get lucky.

Operation · 23 Jun 2012 at 12:32

you mean enter the ck key as a steam code?

Operation · 23 Jun 2012 at 12:33

jamesfreddie said:
Yep.

You get a 3 year warranty with ALL gigabyte boards so you should be able to send it back.

cheers. I've emailed them.

RedStarRiot · 23 Jun 2012 at 12:36

Sure this was a games for windows live game so probably cant register on steam.

bledd · 23 Jun 2012 at 12:45

Maybe you need to do the 'upper filters fix' in the registry

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18413231

AWPC · 23 Jun 2012 at 14:35

Operation said:
Ok, cheers guys. I'll give it a go.

There's nothing silly like the game needing the cd to run is there?

Arkham City uses different keys for securom activation. The Steam ones & the retail are different & do not work unless you own the correct version.

You need Securom to be properly activated otherwise the game will crash constantly. I found out the hard way after using a no dvd patch it messed up my install when the patch came out & now I have lost an activation because of it.

Try to fix your sata ports issues its highly unlikely to be hardware related just some device manager plug n play driver glitch look on technet.

Roadkillv1 · 23 Jun 2012 at 14:54

stupid bloody securom messing things up as usual

Operation · 23 Jun 2012 at 15:38

bledd. said:
Maybe you need to do the 'upper filters fix' in the registry

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18413231

Thanks. Tried that with no sucess.

AWPC said:
Arkham City uses different keys for securom activation. The Steam ones & the retail are different & do not work unless you own the correct version.

You need Securom to be properly activated otherwise the game will crash constantly. I found out the hard way after using a no dvd patch it messed up my install when the patch came out & now I have lost an activation because of it.

Try to fix your sata ports issues its highly unlikely to be hardware related just some device manager plug n play driver glitch look on technet.

I'll look into it. Ta. although I've also tried an hdd in all four of them too without success.

bledd · 25 Jun 2012 at 09:09

Are they on in the BIOS?

Drivers installed in Device Manager?