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A question about PC gaming. It can be irritating to have to keep the game disc inserted in order to play, even after the install. One reason is that children fr

• plorkyeran 16y ago
  NoCD cracks are intended for piracy, but there's generally nothing stopping you from using them with legitimate copies of games.
  • ovi256 16y ago
    I've seen this question raised so many times on games forums, that I speculate more CD cracks are used by legitimate users than pirates.
    • plorkyeran 16y ago
      While there's certainly a nontrivial number of legitimate users that use CD cracks, I highly doubt they're the majority. Reports on PC game piracy rates vary greatly, but they tend to be in the range of 40-90%. Even at the low end of 40%, you'd need two-thirds of the legitimate users using cracks just to have equal numbers of legitimate and illegitimate. If the piracy rate is over 50%, then it's flat out impossible.
• mambodog 16y ago
  These days the main method is to use an optical drive emulator like Daemon-Tools, although in the last few years there has been a bit of a game of cat and mouse between games blacklisting virtual drives and tools that allow you to 'hide' them (or disguise their virtual nature). The other alternative is just making a really accurate duplicate of the original disc, by ripping and burning it with a utility like Alcohol 120%, which can make perceptibly identical copies of the game media.
• moultano 16y ago
  What games do you buy that are still on a disc?