trying to burn DLC content on DVD!!

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

hi im trying to burn the DLC content on a DVD but

it doest work.

ive extracted the temporary files and tried to burn,

but the DVD player doesnt recognize the damn dvd.

my pc where i normaly play arma 2 on isnt connected to the internet at the moment, so i bought a DLC wich i cant install :(

did anyone succesfully burned these onto a dvd??

[Touch Off 10]

I haven't burnt them as I just have a spare HDD that houses a load of random stuff, a couple of external drives also help spread the load.

Really, though, you should be able to just burn your setup file/s along with a copy of the serial number on a text document (or just write it on the disc) and have a perfect data DVD of your DLC. It's just a data file and I see no reason why you'd have to extract it and no reason why it shouldn't work as long as your DVD-RW is working and the media you're using isn't faulty.

[mrcash2009 0]

but the DVD player doesn't recognize the damn dvd.

Then try a new blank DVD? This seems nothing more than a personal PC tech issue with dvd write than DLC.

All you do is dump the exe with a text file saving your key to it, and write as DVD "data", nothing more.

Any DVD failure is disc or machine/drive TBH or process you use to do it.

BTW the exe size should fit onto a blank CDR (700 MB), have you tried that instead, oops correction not for latest DLC I was thinking of BAF sorry.

Edited December 6, 2010 by mrcash2009

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

no tried in both the burner and the the second pc

both wont read the dvd nomather how i try to burn it

i allready screwed 6 dvd's

temp+downloader, extracted data (wich looks like a normal installation disc) but it wont be recognized...

[mrcash2009 0]

Have you got a corrupt installer/unpack folder? Try re download... have you tried to burn anything else using same process and does that work?

When you say wont read the DVD ... Do you mean it burns but wont read the DVD to copy it back off the dvd, or do you mean you try to burn and DVD it wont read to write the data, becuase that still suggests its your brand of DVDs?

Why not get a mem stick or USB stick, or even external drive ... anything to copy the data. Do you have an Ipod? If so they work as a USB drive so use that instead maybe, if all else fails I whip out my ipod to do things like that. Any player like that usually work as a storage device.

*posh accent* ... DVD burning is SO 2000 darling :)

Edited December 6, 2010 by mrcash2009

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

it wont open in both the burner or reader that counts also for the pc where i want to install so i think it might be Copy protection ???

allready bought a wireless network adapter to connect upstairs and redownload..

Edited December 6, 2010 by =KCT=BlackMamba

[mrcash2009 0]

Hmmm, your using Windows 7 ... are you burning with windows 7 directly or using DVD burner software? I would check out DVD burning in 7 and find out if its causing it, maybe you need to be administrator or something to burn correctly ... I have no clue with windows 7 maybe someone else can help with that.

It wont be the DLC, its just an exe file, you had to copy it in order for it to be a DLC :)

Id say copy as file using a different media. I backed it up in 2 places fine but never bother with DVD.

[ArmAriffic 10]

I have a D Drive with 100 Gig free and a 1 TB with 995 GIG external hard drive and I have all patches and DLC's on both

[kylania 568]

ImgBurn to the rescue!

[Mr. Charles 22]

Why don't you buy a nice 8 GB USB stick, should spare you some nerves, lol.

[vasmkd 12]

I just copied the sprocket directory from my documents which contain the actual install files after downloading. Put them on a DVD with serials in txt file and also put them on a 2.5" external HD.

I used Nero to copy as data disk.

All i will do next time is install them by dragging the install files to HD and run them from there OR run them from external 2.5" drive, whichever way

Edited December 6, 2010 by vasmkd

[xxbbcc 6]

Why don't you buy a nice 8 GB USB stick, should spare you some nerves, lol.

What for? My A2 folder is 40 GB in size. :D

[ffur2007slx2_5 11]

What for? My A2 folder is 40 GB in size. :D

I think 320GB portable hard disk shoud be enough for you, it's very cheap.

If you think it cannot fit your appetite, 640GB, if not. 1TB, there must can be one to hold your ARMA2 as well as its models.:D

[Mr. Charles 22]

An 8 GB stick is enough for BAF, PMC and patches 'nuff said