First post, by Barley
I just acquired a (used) retail dvd version of the original Crysis w/ key.
I like to create images of my games to preserve the disc, have a backup, and play without having to load the cd/dvd into the optical drive.
Alcohol 120% was able to successfully create the image (I used Securom settings).
I successfully installed Crysis with the image and applied 1.2 and 1.2.1 patches.
After mounting the image with Alcohol 120%, when I attempt to play, I get a "conflict with emulation software detected" error.
I can get the game to play if I do these two things (the order does not seem to matter, but I have to do both things):
1. Open A.C.I.D Wizard and Cloak and then Uncloak
2. In Alcohol 120%-->View Menu--> DVD/CD drive EDM system: disable, then enable my physical optical drive.
The way I happened upon this solution was by pretty much trying everything I could think of. Eventually, the game loaded but I didn't know why. After much trial and error, I arrived at the above steps.
This all seems rather arbitrary. Can anyone explain to me what the problem was and why these 2 steps together fixed the issue? More importantly, can anyone suggest a better, less manually-intensive solution to playing Crysis on Windows XP using Alcohol 120%?
Thank you!
Barley
