Neverwinter Nights 2 - DVD drive unhook

[Skyduke]

3. Physically disconnect your cdrom drives. I did this by disabling my primary and secondary IDE controllers in the BIOS. I knew I could do this because my hard drives are SATA. You can also just unplug the power cable or ribbon cable from your CDROM. I tried the "Disable" in device manager and that didn't work for me. You should only have 1 CDrom (virtual DT) at this step.

Does this mean I need to uninstall the drivers? Will they come back next time I fire up my computer? Will I need to reinstall them again? Or is disable something else?

Thanks for the help.

[TippeX]

Originally Posted by Skyduke

3. You can also just unplug the power cable or ribbon cable from your CDROM.

i really hope you're turning the pc off before you do that...

also nwn 1.02 seemed to relax things, you can even use daemon tools on it from what i read...

[Zantetsuken]

You guys think that a no-CD/DVD crack will be posted for each version, as in NWN 1?

[P22]

I think that "crackers" get a bit lazy, when there are other ways to beat protection (like virtual image, plus anti-blacklist tool).

[Argarath]

This game drives me crazy!

I used all options here, all loaders, all maxi-images...

can't get it working.

The only thing I didn't try was disconnecting my IDE drives physically.

[Zantetsuken]

Originally Posted by P22

I think that "crackers" get a bit lazy, when there are other ways to beat protection (like virtual image, plus anti-blacklist tool).

So far nothing's been proved fail-proof here... I hope they don't get lazy on this one, I'm really looking forward to those No-DVDs...

[zorranco]

Doesn´t work 4 me either.

Using DT4.06 with SPDT 1.37, poseden Maxi image.

Mount in DT, exit DT with all emulations ON (and OFF too) and no luck. It says "emulator detected". If I try to run with yasu I get a windows error. This game is driving me crazy.

[Ganymed]

Strange thing... for me its working (ver. 1.01) with ProtStop and poseden image on DT4, no procyon etc. needed.
I have a two partition system, on my game-only partition are only DT4, DirectX, sound and graphics drivers, no burning programs, no Alcohol, Blindwrite etc. I dont know if that is the reason.

[DirtyFinger]

reinstalled the game, playing with 1.0 again.

i'd like to install 1.01, but i can't, even if i manually download the patch.

boy, this sucks

[Sokaris]

Where can I download YASU?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Read the forum FAQ.

[lowkee]

I have tried everything posted on MANY forums in getting this to work.

The following is what finally worked:

Poseiden Image (Image #1 on GCW)
DT 4.08HT Emu-Opts ON
DT Still running

What made this work for me? Two things..

I moved my virtual drive from S: to G: (apparently it doesn't like high letter drives.. it gave a 'orig CD not found' type error with drive as S:) and also ran the game immediately after mounting the maxi-image in DT.

So.. the steps:

1: Install DT 4.08
2: DL + unpack Poseiden image
3: Set EMU options to on (ALL of them) in DT
4: Set EMU drives to 1 (prob not mandatory, but what I did)
5: Rename the EMU drive properties to something normal (I named mine SUNY DVD-RW 2.1a .. also prob not mandatory, but what I did)
6: Mount the image in DT
7: Immediately click on the nwn2main_amdxp.exe (might work with the launcher, but did not try it)
8: Play!

Hope this helps someone else, as this thread helped me a ton.

[two2deep]

All,
I got the latest patch working. I had 1.00 installed.
I updated to latest version with NWK2 updater

• DT (Latest Ver) Installed everything
• Got YASU 1.03 installed and enabled
• Mounted poseden_MAXI_NWN2 image(GCW)
• Turned all options on in DT
• Exited DT and said that I want all options still enabled
• Double Clicked NWN2 desktop shortcut
• Clicked Play
• It took about 5 mins while the game built it's caching
• Boom Bam Flippity Floop!
• NWN2 is working!!!!

[Dracolich]

Ok i've read this post all over but i haven't found exactly what i'm looking so i'll just post it here....

I have the DVD Multi 5 version of the game (Spanish-French-Deutch-English-Italian), and i've made a two dvd copy backup of the game, it installs ok and if i use the crack it works fine, but then i want to update it to v 1.03 so it gets fixed up and all that stuff, but then i tried this:

Installed DT 4.08 latest, downloaded poseidon image, mounted on dvd drive and put the original files again in the nwn2 folder (i'm using the crack) and proceeded to run it via the image but then i got nothing, i mean apparently it passes the copy protection because it doesn't send a message back but after the splash screen fades nothing happens, and i'm wondering if it's because i'm using the DVD Multi 5 version, because i don't know which version of the game is the poseidon image file.

Sorry for the long post but i need help guys....