greenthumb79

Hello all, I am new here Here's the deal: Years ago I played OFP and I liked it a lot. I think I had a pirate copy, not sure anymore, sorry about that but I was young and broke and you know the story Anyway, about two weeks ago I ordered an original copy of OFP GOTY. One week ago my CD ROM died. I got the game 2 days ago, and the notebook repairman told me he has to wait for some part (cd controller or something) because he's out of stock. He'll get the part in about a month, since it's an old notebook. Anyway, can I install and play the game using an image drive? Do I have to have the CD in the comp in order to play the game? Will I need to use some crack in order to run the game from an image drive instead of a CD? Since I have an original copy now, will I be able to connect to a legal server if I am using a image drive instead of the CD? Thanks for the replies,peeps, looking forward to play the game once again in hi-res with all effects enabled (i played it on a crappy comp before with low-graphics) and kicking some Russkie butt Cheers!

Ok, my friend took the CD's, made images of them, i copied it from his iPod and installed the game using Deamon tools. Then i downloaded and installed the 1.96 patch and can run the game without the CD, so it worked. Thanks for the advice.

oh, sweet! so with this patch 1.96 the game wont require a CD in the tray to play? wheeeeeeeeeeee, I'll try installing tonight and report if I encounter any problems

the problem is I have a laptop while he has a normal PC, we can't install his CD drive in my laptop I also have no external CD drive available, would it be possible for example to connect my laptop to someone's computer over a network, start the installation from his CD ROM with my hard disk as installation target? Would the game work on my laptop that way? P.S. Would creating an image drive out of OFP CD's in order to install the game and play it be considered illegal?

Well, in order to upgrade it I will need to install it first, and since my CD drive is broken... That is why I am asking about all this "image drive" stuff, since I have to find a way to install and play the game without the CD for now, and dont know if it will be possible with image drives. Anyway, I gave the CD to a friend who will try and make image drives of the CD's in the GOTY box, so I will try installing it later tonight. Any advice is still welcome.