So I patched my first game (hoorah) and now I have some q's??

[Sara2]

Yes I'm a 'noob', groan if you must, flame if you have to, answer if you want. That out of the way...

Ok, so I worked out that patching games is pretty breezy thanks to this site (the game is Battlecruiser Millenium) and while it seems to run ok (I'm not familiar enough with it to really know) someone told me that some (or all) of the AUDIO files are not actually copied from the original and that they must be retrieved with a special prog.

I would have thought that when I installed the game from the original that the ENTIRE contents of the disk would have been copied to my hardrive...or does it read from the disk when you use it while playing the game?

Bottom line: After patching a game, is it really a FULLY working copy in all respects or does this vary from game to game?

Sorry bout all this. I did do a fair amount of looking around for an answer to this before posting. Hell, I worked out how to patch by myself. Anyway thanks.

[ByteMare]

I assume that by patching you mean replacing the original .exe file(s) with a cracked/NoCD exe, not updating the game with official patches, right?


It varies from game to game. Some, you can copy the audio files from disk to harddrive and then maybe do a little fix to your registry so it doesn't look at the cd for the files....for example.

[Sara2]

Yep, patched it officially first then applied the "unofficial" one.