Neverwinter Nights 2 - DVD drive unhook

[TippeX]

those are seriously drastic steps.. disabling the stuff on board, or deleting it all together SHOULD have a disclaimer attached to it..

sometimes it amazes me what measures people are actually willing to go...

[tet666]

lol i just tried to start the game without disabling dvd drives or anything elese and the game starts! i just mounted the maxi image nothing else.

[maltiryan]

If I just use the maxi-image when I run the game it says 'Original disc could not be found or authenticated.' and if I uninstall the DVD drive and remove the key it says the same thing. Any ideas? I'm using the Bender image, the Poseden one can't even mount it.

[P22]

Originally Posted by maltiryan

If I just use the maxi-image when I run the game it says 'Original disc could not be found or authenticated.' and if I uninstall the DVD drive and remove the key it says the same thing. Any ideas? I'm using the Bender image, the Poseden one can't even mount it.

Bender image doesn't work for me (gives that same error).
But poseidon one works (with newest DT4.06, SPTD1.35 and YASU 1.01).

It works with both 1.00 and 1.01 version of NWN2.

Haven't tested it with 1.02 (rereleased version). Can anyone confirm does it work or not?

[maltiryan]

P22 where did you get the Poseden image? Maybe the one I'm got mine from is corrupted.

[maltiryan]

Finally! It works with the Posedon image even with patch 1.02 P22. It seems nothing was wrong with the image, it just wouldn't show up in the the virtual drive. Even without YASU it works.

[P22]

P22 where did you get the Poseden image? Maybe the one I'm got mine from is corrupted.

From GCW of course.

Although one interesting thing with this image is, that it doesn't include file and folder info, so you can't "open" it explorer and see any files (trying that gives corruption error). But it still does the work of bypassing copy protection.


EDIT: Heh, crossposting...
Anyway, are you 100% sure it works with 1.02?
Without YASU? Did you maybe deinstalled DVD driver (not necessary for 1.01 if using YASU)?

[zhandao]

I got it working:

Mount with Daemon Tools, but don't do any of the disabling/deleting drives. After you mount, exit Daemon Tools in the system tray but leave Emulation options on. NWN2 should still be in your virtual drive but D-tools should not be running anymore and you can just run NWN2 normally now.

Edit: If it still doesn't work, here's a link to the 1.01 patch by itself (I'm assuming the game automatically updates to 1.02 now?) so that you can reinstall and not go straight to 1.02: http://nwn2patch.obsidianent.com/upd...m100_to101.zip