Far Cry 2 play without Disc ?

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Zenoth

Originally posted by: 450R
Two of my discs stopped working a few months ago: Company of Heroes and STALKER. They don't even look damaged. So it does happen, even without much use. Fortunately, CoH only asks for the disc when I'm offline and STALKER was just on sale on Steam for $5, so it wasn't that bad.

What's with the piracy kneejerk reaction? We hear enough from publishers - we don't need to start pointing fingers at other gamers for no good reason.

Don't worry it's my nature, I often overreact based on what others around me tell me, but I often disagree with them, but you know what, that's fine, life still goes on and I don't effect their lives in any way, shape or form, and neither do they affect mine in the same manners. What I think of the OP's situation won't change anything anyway, he will get a crack or will make or download a mini-image, and everyone will be happy in the end.

i actually DO know the entire back story - he is no pirate - he just *needs* to keep the disc Pristine
[and the story is NoYB ]

this kind of accusation is ridiculous
:roll:

What about STALKER, Clear Sky - and Assault on Dark Athena?
- i hate scratched disks .. i sell my games generally when i am done with them and if they have ZERO wear, they get a higher price .. you risk scratching a disk every time you put it in

it is too bad that DRM does not allow legitimate users leave their CD out of the drive. Some games work this way and still have protection - is it just a publisher's decision?

 

[BFG10K]

There's a working crack for 1.2 now - I have it. It's only 34 KB yet somehow it still works properly.

I can only imagine the missing code is related to the DRM, which is astonishing since the original executable is over 5 MB.

It?s so much better not having to dick around with my original DVD anymore. :thumbsup:

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
There's a working crack for 1.2 now - I have it. It's only 34 KB yet somehow it still works properly.

I can only imagine the missing code is related to the DRM, which is astonishing since the original executable is over 5 MB.

It?s so much better not having to dick around with my original DVD anymore. :thumbsup:

Yup, for most modern games the executable is just a short script telling other data files to load up and run.
If its over a meg its probably filled with DRM checks and other garbage.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: Zenoth

Originally posted by: BFG10K

Originally posted by: Zenoth

there's in fact no reasons to download a cracked .exe if you have the legit copy,

Again this is nonsense. There are lots of good reasons for no-CD cracks. A single exe that is a few hundred MBs is far better than screwing around with disc images, especially since a disc image consumes disc space on top of what the installed game uses.

Furthermore a lot of games won?t install if they detect disc imaging utilities on the system.

I'm merely stating an opinion, the "in fact" portion is the nonsense part, but I still believe what I wrote for myself, it applies to me, if it doesn't to you then there's nothing wrong about it, I'm not obliging nor imposing my thoughts on others, I think that should be obvious enough, let's forget about everything I said, I know I'm being wrong in the eyes of everyone, and that's fine, it's often like that in many subjects, it's alright, it's part of disagreements and/or agreements we can have during various conversations on as many different subjects. You disagree, that's cool, let's just get over it, I'm sure we can agree on other subjects.

EDIT: Oh, by the way, it's just 1:46am here, Happy New Year to everyone.

Cripple fight!!!!

Happy new year.

 

[Ackmed]

I too hate having to have the DVD in. I looked for a mini image when I was playing it, but couldnt find one. I wish I had bought it off of steam, but it wasnt an option at the time sadly. I buy most games I can from steam, just for that reason. I hate having to keep track of DVD's, and then risking getting in trouble as a "pirate" cause I want a no-DVD crack. Its also pretty ignorant to call people who want a crack, a pirate. Get over yourselves.

 

[Sylvanas]

Meh I just bought it through Steam, don't need to bother finding a disc or a cracked exe.

 

[coloumb]

Originally posted by: Sylvanas
Meh I just bought it through Steam, don't need to bother finding a disc or a cracked exe.

This [meaning this = needing to keep the dvd/cd in the drive to play the game] is just plain stupid. Why not just include the same executable that STEAM uses on the DVD version? Our PC's ARE NOT frikken consoles - there is no reason for us to keep the dvd/cd in the drive if we've jumped through all the ridiculous obstacles to get it working [DRM install, online registration, dna samples, etc].

 

[Xellos2099]

Well, my old diabolo 2 disk has oen single scratch and it would refuse to install.

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: Xellos2099
Well, my old diabolo 2 disk has oen single scratch and it would refuse to install.

You can register than game on Blizzard.com and use their download service.

 

[shortylickens]

- Bump again. I dont like making new threads for every little thing. -

So sorry I bought FC2.
It sucks. Even with the Unlimited Ammo and Unlimited Reliability cheats I'm getting stomped. Cant see guys running around in the jungle, even with all the graphics options turned down. Savegame system is horrid. Finding diamonds is a pain. I wish they would make them more obvious but with some little challenge for you to get them. The GPS green light system is annoying.
Guns are cool but you cant carry exactly what you want, and having to spend so many diamonds to get minor upgrades is irritating.

I dont condone piracy, but I feel sorry for all the folks who paid for this game and dont like it.

 

[cbn]

Originally posted by: wolf2009
I know this topic may borders on the discussion which is not to be named.

But anyway to play FC2 without the disc. I mean it already activated with the disc, and the key, now why does it need the disc ? I don't want the disc to get scratched .

What to do ?

Is this game available on STEAM?

Doesn't having a game registered on STEAM allow a person to play without the disc?

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: Just learning

Originally posted by: wolf2009
I know this topic may borders on the discussion which is not to be named.

But anyway to play FC2 without the disc. I mean it already activated with the disc, and the key, now why does it need the disc ? I don't want the disc to get scratched .

What to do ?

Is this game available on STEAM?

Doesn't having a game registered on STEAM allow a person to play without the disc?

Farcry 2 is on STEAM, yes.

Only certain games can be registered on STEAM to download and play without the disc. You'd have to go over to the steampowered.com website and check the list.

 

[BFG10K]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

It sucks. Even with the Unlimited Ammo and Unlimited Reliability cheats I'm getting stomped. Cant see guys running around in the jungle, even with all the graphics options turned down. Savegame system is horrid. Finding diamonds is a pain. I wish they would make them more obvious but with some little challenge for you to get them. The GPS green light system is annoying.
Guns are cool but you cant carry exactly what you want, and having to spend so many diamonds to get minor upgrades is irritating.

LOL, learn to play better? A crack won?t help with that.

I brought every upgrade and gun I ever wanted (including vehicle upgrades) and I still had so many diamonds that I didn?t know what to do with them. If you?re short on diamonds then you?re doing something seriously wrong.

I didn?t have any problems fighting either, and how can anyone have a problem with quick-save/quick-load?

 

[jonks]

I have TWO legit copies of this game, I bought the retail in December when amazon had it for $17 for one day, and another copy came with my new gtx260. Just got around to installing it (GTA4 occupied me for months, just finished it). Requiring the DVD to be in the drive is so 1990s, seriously. Anyway, it's freakin beautiful, running with 4x AA and Ultra High settings. Haven't played an FPS since Warhead so am looking forward to some action. Seen a lotta hate for FC2 here, but then again, many here hated Crysis too and I played the hell outta that.

 

[Scoobyd00]

I have yet to figure out why you would want to have the FC2 disk in more then once.

Get mission to kill somebody. Drive for 20 minutes trying to avoid CONSTANTLY respawning incredibly stupid AI that have wall hack and aimbot enabled.Shoot target. Drive for 20 minutes trying to avoid CONSTANTLY respawning incredibly stupid AI that have wall hack and aimbot enabled to report that you killed the target. Repeat 50 times