Try booting the computer from a Windows installation CD to see if the drive works. If it can read the CD, then you have a software problem caused by whatever DRM Crysis installed.
I gotta warn you, Crysis isn't that great -- all the graphical capabilities are unfortunately built around some moderately uninspiring gameplay (it gets better on Delta, though). Warhead was a moderate step up.
This is definitely a Securom thing. I was getting the same problem with C&C3 a while ago, and eventually resorted to copying the cab files to another computer and transferring them to my main machine to get the thing installed.
However, it shouldn't affect any other DVDs. If you already have Securom installed from another game, you can try removing it, but it's always the game exes and not the installers that actually put Securom on your system.
This is definitely a Securom thing. I was getting the same problem with C&C3 a while ago, and eventually resorted to copying the cab files to another computer and transferring them to my main machine to get the thing installed.
However, it shouldn't affect any other DVDs. If you already have Securom installed from another game, you can try removing it, but it's always the game exes and not the installers that actually put Securom on your system.QuoteI gotta warn you, Crysis isn't that great -- all the graphical capabilities are unfortunately built around some moderately uninspiring gameplay (it gets better on Delta, though). Warhead was a moderate step up.
I liked the game, even leaving aside its graphics. It was a little too easy even on Delta, but it felt fairly open ended (the first half at least) and had good variety in its level design and combat situations, more than most FPSs. Warhead was actually a step backwards in almost every way.
I tell you one thing though, after having this **** happen likely because of SecuRom, Steam is looking like Mother Theresa.
QuoteI tell you one thing though, after having this **** happen likely because of SecuRom, Steam is looking like Mother Theresa.
The only thing that sucks about steam is that I need a credit card or similar to buy games with it, which all require me my parent's permission or me being 18 years or older. Which I am not... Luckily, all the valve games one can buy in a store already use steam :).
Valve = awesome.
rRy modding the game and making the cloak coast redicolous ammount of energy. It's fun to sneak areound hte old fashioned way!
Well, it may be that I detested the second half of Crysis so much that Warhead seemed like a relief...but I agree, it had its faults as well.
As for their games, I recently broke my own promise and bought HL2 and the Episode pack because they were only ten bucks. HL2 was a huge dissapointment. It's not even a story, it's an introduction to a story. You play through the whole game without knowing what's actually going on. That's IDIOTIC. How can I get into a game if I don't know the story??? I mean, a person who played HL1 ASSUMES that it's the guys from the other dimension, but then what, you've got previous evil aliens on your side. And all you fight is a bunch of face less marines? Am I fighting aliens? Because all I see to be killing is bunch of humans with no faces. And why does every headcrab zombie look like a scientist? What? They couldn't change the clothes to make it match the civy population?? Everyone's in fatigues anyway. All you do the whole game is kill Marines and Zombies.
rRy modding the game and making the cloak coast redicolous ammount of energy. It's fun to sneak areound hte old fashioned way!
Yes, that was a mediocre game. I didn't bother with the episodes after playing it. Maybe I should try them some time if they are substantially better.
I though the episodes, especially 2, were much better. What's your trick?Yes, that was a mediocre game. I didn't bother with the episodes after playing it. Maybe I should try them some time if they are substantially better.
Well yeah I enjoyed them. The end of the second episode was actually pretty sweet too, until I realised a certain trick that made it significantly easier.
Though there are a couple of dumb points, like one part where they make it scarier by arbitrarily limiting the character. Kinda dumb. But other than that, pretty decent. I might actually by episode 3 at full price.
Well yeah I enjoyed them. The end of the second episode was actually pretty sweet too, until I realised a certain trick that made it significantly easier.I though the episodes, especially 2, were much better. What's your trick?
Though there are a couple of dumb points, like one part where they make it scarier by arbitrarily limiting the character. Kinda dumb. But other than that, pretty decent. I might actually by episode 3 at full price.
QuoteAs for their games, I recently broke my own promise and bought HL2 and the Episode pack because they were only ten bucks. HL2 was a huge dissapointment. It's not even a story, it's an introduction to a story. You play through the whole game without knowing what's actually going on. [...]
Yes, that was a mediocre game. I didn't bother with the episodes after playing it. Maybe I should try them some time if they are substantially better.
If you own Crysis, why not find a crack for it?
I personally didn't like how the original Half-Life had no main characters (save G-man). It made it seem like there was no story at all beyond the basic plot. I never played the expansions though, so they might have actually done something with the story there....
I found Half-Life 2 to be annoying as all Hell for the most part. Especially on thechase-scenes... er...vehicular chase-scenes... er...the vehicular chase scenes where you're in a boat of some sorter... ... .... Okay, all of the levels save the graveyard (which was immediately followed by a steaming crock). It took at least an hour to get from Point A to Point B, and that's if you didn't get stuck (kind of rare, but it does happen).
If you own Crysis, why not find a crack for it?
The graphics seemed a bit better in Warhead on my rig.
The second part of Crysis had two decent moments (liked the null-G ship level and most of the VTOL section), but gar, everything else was awful.
The story was all told through a handful of cutscenes with little plot detail beyond that, and the fact your guy never talks even when asked questions was stupid.
My trick?I thought it actually told you to do that somewhere?Spoiler:Well the hardest part of the Episode 2 climax isn't the large walkers it's the HK walkers. They're the only real threat to Freeman. But after playing the first few waves a few times and continually running out of ammo to kill the HKs I got desperate and just thought screw it, ram the bastards. And that's when I discovered all you gotta do is run over the HKs jump out and then bag the big walkers. And when you're in the car you're compartively shielded. Once you start ramming the guys its not too tough to beat 'em. Because of course, just running them over is a hell of a lot easier than jumping out and trying to bag them with the rocket launcher or the energy pulse or whatever. Even so, a few of the big walkers were pretty harry. Alarms going off all over. And damned if I know how anyone would get the "keep all buildings safe" achievement. But I don't care about achievements anyway. But yeah, sweet climax when. When I walked into the barracks afterwards and everyone was like "good going freeman, you the man" I thought "****ing rights I am. Yeah!". Big grin on my face. Very enjoyable
The graphics seemed a bit better in Warhead on my rig.
The second part of Crysis had two decent moments (liked the null-G ship level and most of the VTOL section), but gar, everything else was awful.
Awful? The leves were amazing. I especially loved that "assault on the harbror and sink the cruiser" level and the "tank assault" after that.
I must have passed those levels several times, completing them in different ways each time. :yes:
I thought it actually told you to do that somewhere?
I'm still not sure I like the 'umbilical cord' idea of DRM, where you either must have everything installed and never uninstall, or trust Valve to never go out of business.
Um, those were in the first half of the game, not the second.
How many times did you pass the 'Escort Nomad' mission?
Yeah, thought so.
Actually, I liked the second part too. VERY good atmosphere and interesting, even if more linear.
Actually, I liked the second part too. VERY good atmosphere and interesting, even if more linear.
You guys are saying linear? How does it compare to Far Cry? Which, was sorta linear in its objectives but a lot less linear in how you approached them. (the only truely non-linear part was probably the kill the radio towers portion of the thing). Not that I'm going to keep this thing. Though suppose I could always download it on Steam one day.
I've got AVP2 en route from eBay so I'll play that for a while, assuming I can get my DVD drive working.
So if I buy Crysis from Steam, no Securom?
So if I buy Crysis from Steam, no Securom?
No CD/DVD-ROM no secuROM
No, it doesn't work that way. The vast majority of games that have Securom on the retail version also have it on the Steam version. It doesn't check for the DVD, but the exe still silently installs the Securom virtual driver. This also applies to demos of Securom games, for that matter.
No, it doesn't work that way. The vast majority of games that have Securom on the retail version also have it on the Steam version. It doesn't check for the DVD, but the exe still silently installs the Securom virtual driver. This also applies to demos of Securom games, for that matter.
There's no reason a demo should be packing that ****.
If PC gaming is truely dying it's definately because of DRM. Having a game screw up my computer is a definate reason to ask why anyone would want to put up with this ****.
The publishers think that will deter the crackers from decrypting the exes. :rolleyes: I rarely bother with demos anymore because of this, as it's often harder to find a crack for the demo than the full game.
I just got a new PC, 4GB DDR3, 1080p screen, 9600GT... The newest game I play is SOASE. Other than that, The Orange Box and older. Favourite games: AoEII, Homeworld2, FSO, SOASE. Notice how only one of those is "New", and it had a budget of less than 1 million dollars?
There's gonna be a Crysis 2? O_o
Meh. Doesn't mean it'll have anything to do with Crysis 1. (see Farcry 1 + 2)That was because Ubisoft kept the Far Cry license after Crytek moved to EA. Far Cry 2 wasn't made by the same development team. Crysis isn't in the same situation at all.
There are no good games that are relatively new.
:wtf: no good new games?
1 Medieval II Total War
2 Empire Total War
3 Silent Threat Reborn :nervous:
4 Call of Duty 4 *shrugs* relatively new
5 Mount & Blade IS kinda new... only couple of months :p
6 GTA IV kinda good though not great
7 Mass Effect kicks some serious ass (and stfu it's good)
8 Mirror's Edge is great too
9 Spore is nice if you're a kid... but is it a bad thing?
Have you looked into consoles? Most of the good titles can be found there as well.
:wtf: How old IS your computer?
Peggle?
I don't think it's fair to make judgements like 'there are no good new games' when it doesn't sound like you've played any.
Have you looked into consoles? Most of the good titles can be found there as well.
I completely respect your choice not to bother with the endless cycle of upgrading, but I also hasten to add that you're overstating how high modern system requirements are and how quickly PCs become outdated. My current machine has no components newer than two years, none of which were state-of-the-art even when they were freshly released, and I'm yet to encounter a game it can't handle comfortably on high settings. System requirements have slowed down enormously and are now more or less dictated by the current console generation. Only a handful of games - such as the one this thread is about - are likely to go very far above that until the next console generation rolls around in 2012 or so.And in addition to all of that, it's never been cheaper (to the best of my knowledge) to put together a relatively beefy system. I recently helped my family buy a new *gasp* Dell desktop, and I was flabbergasted at how much system one could buy for so little. They wound up getting a Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz, 4 GB of RAM, some sort of relatively good nVidia card, and a rather large flatscreen, all for significantly under $1000 or so. Sure, all of that isn't exactly top-of-the-line, and the actual hardware may not be of the highest quality, but it's still a lot of system for the money, and unless you're a hardcore technophile (which it seems you aren't), you probably wouldn't care anyway. Though it's currently being used for not much more than e-mail and Word, I know that their system could comfortably run most/all of the titles that Ziame mentioned. I've been meaning to throw FS2_Open on there, just so I can finally see how pretty normal maps are. :p
To be honest, the cramper on most games is graphics requirements, not the whole computer, even a slow CPU is actually up to the job in a great number of games, it's the graphics themselves that take the power.Tell that to GTA4.
Try booting the computer from a Windows installation CD to see if the drive works. If it can read the CD, then you have a software problem caused by whatever DRM Crysis installed.