Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships MULTI5 no cd patch

[GroundNPound]

I bought the game at a Wal-Mart in Northern Ontario. The game was released under the Playlogic banner and developed by the Russian company Akella. Basically I can't get the game to run with the TAGES protection, keeps telling me to insert the DVD even though the disc is in the drive. I haven't found any solution after hours of searching the net. I figured a nocd would be a nice easy solution but no luck there either.

[wolfsrain]

Try updating the TAGES drivers and make sure that you have no programs that are installing virtual drives on your PC (Daemon Tools, Alciohol 120%, Nero, Power ISO, UltraISO, Virtual CD).
There are no cracks available for the Multi5 and the US versions, while for the russian version it's available only a crack for v1.212 (the EU and the US versions are patched at v1.3)

[GroundNPound]

Originally Posted by wolfsrain

Try updating the TAGES drivers and make sure that you have no programs that are installing virtual drives on your PC (Daemon Tools, Alciohol 120%, Nero, Power ISO, UltraISO, Virtual CD).
There are no cracks available for the Multi5 and the US versions, while for the russian version it's available only a crack for v1.212 (the EU and the US versions are patched at v1.3)

Unfortunately I've tried that already, the TAGES drivers are the latest 5.5.7.2 or some revision close to that. I have no virtual drive software installed and I still have no luck. One person suggested that the divx codec has caused some conflicts with this game, causing the dvd not to be read at game start up. Really though I don't much like the idea of getting rid of codecs as I have numerous media files I enjoy watching. Could there be a nocd in the near future or basically no one wants to make one? Does anyone know that? Thanks for the help folks.

Cheers,
Rick

[wolfsrain]

TAGES is a pain to crack. Especially the latest versions. The Witcher had around 5 or 6 months until the first crack came out. On the other hand there is bound to be something in your operating system that conflicts with TAGES. Did you try the DVD on some other PC?

[GroundNPound]

Not as of yet but I guess I should do that. I'm definitely not a fan of TAGES