Crysis

[hudson80]

Haven't bought or played a computer shooter game in years. Recently bought Crysis. After installling the game it wants me to keep the disk in the machine before it will let me play. Is the new way games are loaded or have I screwed up the install?

[Masaki 7-11]

A lot of games still require that you keep the CD in while playing; probably some way of enforcing the DRM. Some games don't require a CD to play (Steam games and a lot of MMORPGs) while others such as Starcraft have a method of not requiring a CD that is provided by the game creators (Blizzard). I really hate having to use CDs to play games as I usually end up losing the disk, having disk errors or having the optical drive fail on me (that's why I mostly use Steam for games). A new patch (Sins of a solar empire for example had patch 1.05 where it didn't require a CD) may change it so that you won't require a CD to be in.

[David M]

Originally Posted by hudson80 Haven't bought or played a computer shooter game in years. Recently bought Crysis. After installling the game it wants me to keep the disk in the machine before it will let me play. Is the new way games are loaded or have I screwed up the install?

Of course you can take the disk out after installation. Most games though want the original disk in the optical drive in order to play the game. This is supposed to reduce piracy.

An alternative is to buy games through Steam which you download off the internet which of course then do not require the games CD to be in the optical drive. I like Steam a lot but you better hope it does not get screwed up otherwise you are out a lot of money because Steam does not have humans you can talk to when you do have a problem. Been there...done that.

Another option is software which somehow bypasses the necessity of having the games CD in the optical drive. I don't know if this is legal or not so I will let you research that option for yourself.