Football Manager 2005 no-cd error

[swarvsta]

Hi,

I have Football Manager installed on my PC and I have updated the game using the new patch. I need to use the no-cd exe as I have left my game cd at university! I have tried it, by copying it over the old exe but it is not working properly. The game loads but it does not appear as usual and there is no text shown on the menu icons and there is some black where colour should be. Does anyone know whats going wrong and what I can do to make it work? Is there anyone out there who has managed to get this no-cd exe working? I'm not convinced it works?!

Thanks a lot for any help you can give me

[krondike]

get back the cd!