Such methods include DRM, CD-checks, dummy files, illegal tables of contents, over-sizing or over-burning the CD, physical errors and bad sectors. Set the start and the end drive letter to the same letter (D: in my case).įollowing these steps, I have never had any issues regarding CD audio with Windows and DOS games using Daemon Tools under Windows 98SE. Technically, like CDs, DVD copy protection refers to a general term for various methods of copy protection for DVDs. To set a static drive letter for your virtual CD drive, right-click My Computer then go to Device Manager and select your virtual CD drive from the list. The copy protection causes the computer to not recognize the disc, and for some reason, holding down that shift key stops the copy protection kit from being installed, and the computer recognizes that there's a CD in the drive.
#Cd copy protection install
Install the game using this virtual drive and make sure that the drive letter will stay the same when you'll be playing the game as it was at the time of installation. Make sure that the virtual CD drive is of the first letter among all of the optical drives on your computer.Ģ. I'm a year late in giving a possible solution but here's what's worked for me regarding CD audio for anyone that is struggling with this issue today:ġ. It also doesn't help that in just under a month I've already had TWO broken CD drives.so these really aren't going to last us forever (and I'm coming from the video game console world, where pretty much every single system which uses optical discs has been hacked or an ODE - optical drive emulator has been developed, so I still can't comprehend that we have this issue in 2020 for PC's). How do you all deal with games that use CD audio? Some work when you're using Daemon and you turn on digital audio (believe that's a checkbox in Control Panel/Multimedia?), but many don't and I STILL have to use a physical disk to have CD sound (there's other hacks I've tried as well and still nothing works for them all.