Neverwinter Nights 2 - DVD drive unhook

[CypSteel]

My first post, after the time I wasted on NWN2, I decided to give back to the community.

After sharing the same experience with Yuck...trying everything and nothing working...I was ready to give up. I consider myself a very good methodical troubleshooter and giving up was one of the things I don't do very often, especially when so many others say theirs is working.

Low and behold, I decided to do a total reinstall as a last ditch effort. Luckily it paid off. I have repeated it on 4 machines and all of them work with the exception of one machine not having a good enough video card.

Here is a step by step for those that might still need:

1. If you have tried to make it work, do an uninstall. Do not just delete the directory, but do a full uninstall. You can reach it in the Atari submenu of your start menu. If you do it correctly, it should ask you if you want to keep your save games. I chose "no". ( Do not skip this step, I know it takes a while, but I fiddled with my old install probably well over 4 hours...)

2. Make sure you have DT 4.06HE and SPTD 1.35. You can find links to both of these on http://www.daemon-tools.cc .

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.

4. Do a full install of NWN2. Also now perform update to 1.2.809 or whatever.

5. Now run YASU and make sure it says it hid your DT cdrom. You can find this on http://www.gamecopyworld.com Only run this once!!!

6. Now mount the Posidean Maxi Image with NO emulation options in DT. You can also find this image on http://www.gamecopyworld.com My maxi image wouldn't pull up in Explorer, but the game didn't seem to mind. Once I followed the above steps, it fixed my crashing and "emulator detected" errors and everything ran like a dream.

7. Then run NWN2 from the start menu. Mine fired up on all 4 machines!!!


Good luck and I hope my first post was constructive!

[TippeX]

so essentially...

clean install of the game.. dont run it
install dt latest version and latest sptd
physically disconnect any cd / dvd drives.. << probably how you got it working
mount the image
run yasu
run the game..

disable not working for you in device manager is probably chipset dependant too

[CypSteel]

Yep...your probably right Tippex...but I wanted to lay it out step by step for those that might need the extra help and guidance. Sometimes its easier to find all the information together than bits and pieces of it over 5 pages of replies.

[DABhand]

Do keep in mind that your only allowed to play the game on one machine, unless you purchase more copies

[CypSteel]

Absoulutely DABhand, I was just setting it up so I can play from any room in the house. Doesn't everyone have a computer set up next to the toliet for NWN2?

[kilyan]

hello i get error data loss how do i fix it? i installed patch 1.2.809 italian and i get this error...i followed the instruction though...

help

[Joe Forster/STA]

Insufficient information; read the forum FAQ on how to report problems properly.

[tet666]

Originally Posted by CypSteel

My first post, after the time I wasted on NWN2, I decided to give back to the community.

After sharing the same experience with Yuck...trying everything and nothing working...I was ready to give up. I consider myself a very good methodical troubleshooter and giving up was one of the things I don't do very often, especially when so many others say theirs is working.

Low and behold, I decided to do a total reinstall as a last ditch effort. Luckily it paid off. I have repeated it on 4 machines and all of them work with the exception of one machine not having a good enough video card.

Here is a step by step for those that might still need:

1. If you have tried to make it work, do an uninstall. Do not just delete the directory, but do a full uninstall. You can reach it in the Atari submenu of your start menu. If you do it correctly, it should ask you if you want to keep your save games. I chose "no". ( Do not skip this step, I know it takes a while, but I fiddled with my old install probably well over 4 hours...)

2. Make sure you have DT 4.06HE and SPTD 1.35. You can find links to both of these on http://www.daemon-tools.cc .

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.

4. Do a full install of NWN2. Also now perform update to 1.2.809 or whatever.

5. Now run YASU and make sure it says it hid your DT cdrom. You can find this on http://www.gamecopyworld.com Only run this once!!!

6. Now mount the Posidean Maxi Image with NO emulation options in DT. You can also find this image on http://www.gamecopyworld.com My maxi image wouldn't pull up in Explorer, but the game didn't seem to mind. Once I followed the above steps, it fixed my crashing and "emulator detected" errors and everything ran like a dream.

7. Then run NWN2 from the start menu. Mine fired up on all 4 machines!!!


Good luck and I hope my first post was constructive!

yeah well but yasu is blacklisted with patch 1.02, so your guide must be wrong.
i just have to mount the image in dt and it starts with 1.02, i tested this with 3 different pcs, if that doesnt work then something else must be wrong with the sys.

[P22]

YASU 1.02b is not blacklisted with patch 1.02.

Although I was able to run the 1.02 patch without any loader sotware (no YASU, no proycon, no anything), just DT4.06 and nothing else.

[DirtyFinger]

apart from the complete reinstall i tried everything posted here, but no luck.

however, I noticed that when I closed Daemon Tools and try to start nvn2 anyway, it still says 'Emulator detected' which is a bit of a puzzle.

As far as I know I didn't install (knowingly) other emulators although I did install nero.

So, what gives ?

[TippeX]

nero cant emulate a damned thing, so its not nero (though safedisc did blacklist nero at one time.. unsure if they still do)..

daemon tools is more than just that exe, its drivers and so on... whilst they're on your system and active then you'll have emulator detected....

[topjolly]

If anyone's interested Virtual CD 8.0.0.2 works with NWN2 1.02. And seems to be working fine, you'll need 5.80gb of space though. I've played well into act I with the original DVD and installed Virtual CD 8 and played about 3-4hrs with no problems so far and it seems nippier to play too.

[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?