EA should release a No-CD Crack for Crysis

This is a fairly well known issue, but it hasn't really been discussed on these forums surprisingly enough. A fair amount of people playing Crysis (myself included), have experienced an incredibly annoying "clicking" sound every time they insert the Crysis dvd. Some have attributed this to Secorum, I don't know how true that is but I can certainly believe it.

In any case, since this is an issue that seems to affect quite a large population of people playing Crysis, it shouldn't have been an issue that managed to sneak by EA's QA department. In any case, I shouldn't have to deal with irritating clicking sounds (which don't sound very good for the drive either), not to mention the fact that I have to take the Crysis cd out of my drive any time I shut down the computer. Why? Because my computer tries to check if the Crysis dvd is a boot disk every time it starts up, and it takes it an entire minute to read the damn thing.

EA, either release a no-CD crack or stop using this ridiculous Secorum garbage (assuming it's to blame) considering that it does absolutely nothing for game security.

 

Heh -- I thought it was just me.

I'm hearing clicking sounds as well whenever my computer boots up (or occasionally when in use) with the Crysis disc, but it doesn't bother me much at all.

 

there are NO-CD cracks already out there.

 

Oh snap, that's what those noises are? I thought my PSU was going out.

 

I bought Crysis, I do not use the disc.... it will just wear it out and have a chance to get damaged/cracked.

I have been using the No-DVD crack fine... no probs for single or multi-player.

 

I don't know if you've never bothered to search but....no-cd patches are talked about all the time. There is no moratorium about talking about them. You can go to gamecopyworld.com and megagames.com are 2 of them that come to mind that have no-cd patches. There is a no-cd crysis patch already available.

* You are LEGALLY ALLOWED to make a personal backup of an Original Game CD/DVD as long as you are the owner of the Original Game CD/DVD.
* You are NOT ALLOWED to sell, rent or give away any backups of copyrighted Games CD/DVD's, as this is not allowed by Copyright Laws.
* You MUST DESTROY any backups when you don't legally own the Original Game CD/DVD anymore (e.g. selling or giving it away)
* Before making a backup, check in the supplied manual or on the back of the CD/DVD, if there are special conditions or provisions for making a personal backup.

So long as your not talking about pirating a game or how to pirate a game your fine.

 

sure, nobody does that, right?! lol

 

I never suggested that no-cd patches aren't talked about. I simply stated that no one on these forums has discussed the Crysis DVDs quirks.

NO-CD cracks aren't backups...

The point I was trying to make is that EA should have known about the state of their Crysis DVDs, and taken some form of action to avoid it. With that said, the very least they could do is give their customers a course of action that doesn't involve going to a bunch of seedy websites with hundreds of different no-cd cracks for the same game, many of which often don't work.

 

How hard it is to find a No DVD crack? Use google, I could give you a link but search yourself.

 

Wu Jen has already gived the links where you can find the no-cd...
If you're expecting than a multi-national like EA is worried about the clicking of one of their millions dvd games...you are a dreamer
Do you know that subprogrammers at EA has money penalties if they don't finish games in exact dates?
So take care of yourself and use a no cd crack...

 

i think u're missing the point that Concepticle is trying to make

 

Yeah sorry I missed that point, that´s how it goes when you read some posts too fast, sorry about that I agree with the poster though.

 

I also got that stupid creek sound from my DVD & now I'm using no-DVD crack.It working well with single & multi player

 

I'm pretty sure it's perfectly legal to save the image file from your crysis disc as an iso file on your computer, and then you can mount that file instead of using the physical disk. (If you wanna learn how to do this, google can help) At least it should be as legal as making a backup copy of your disk.

On the other hand, say your disc is scratched beyond repair, you could download an iso file of a crysis disc an use that, which is definitely legally controversial, but morally green as long as you're still using the cd key you purchased, which is the real proof that you own the game.

Using an iso file isn't really a no-CD crack, it's creating a virtual cd/dvd drive so you can use a file instead of the physical CD. Daemon tools is an example of a free program that can do this.

In the broadband age though, physical discs are becoming unnecessary. I think most games will go the path that MMO's have already taken, and have an easy to download game client that simply requires the purchase of a registration key and an online confirmation to play. This saves the companies and consumers costs on shipping and manufacturing as well. Of course, discs will not become obsolete any time soon, and you will still be able to buy games on discs as well for as long as discs aren't replaced by some other physical storage means.

 

There have been worse cases like starforce. Some people have even reported that it killed their drive and messed up windows. As for the clicking sound, doesn't it happen when you insert ANY disc? If i have my headphones plugged in , everytime i close/open the drive i can hear a small clicking noise, and, if i listen carefully, i can even hear the drive's motor(in the headphones)?

Problems like these are one of the reasons for which i will never buy another game again

 

Yes, I'm well aware that I can mount an image file, but it's far more efficient to simply use a small executable in the form of a no-cd crack. Again, I'm not saying that EA should release a No-CD crack on the premise that it is difficult to obtain it from alternative sources. What I'm saying is that EA should release a No-CD crack on the premise that THEIR product is incompatible to a degree with a large portion of DVD drives, and that it is their responsibility to do something about it.

And to bubba, the clicking sounds do not happen when I insert any other disc. Yes, there will always be sounds from the DVD drive when it spins up to load the disc. However, the sounds coming from Crysis are much different. The first time I inserted it, I thought I inserted it incorrectly and jammed the drive because the sounds were so pronounced. The noise is reminiscent of a piece of metal tapping against the case for a period of no less than a full minute. Again, this only happens with Crysis so it must have something to do with either the composition of the disk or something on it that makes it difficult to read. I've heard everything from the notion that it's a dual layer DVD to the idea that Secorum is incompatible with SATA drives. Whatever the case, EA should do something about it.

 

All the CD "protection" schemes are so stupid. They just keep the honest people honest and give them never-ending problems. I should not have to download a no-cd/dvd crack just to play a game, which I had to do when I bought Civ 3 Conquests... It wouldn't work no matter what I did. That is just wrong... I understand why they put them on the CD or DVDs, but i really think they are counter-productive since any semi technically proficient person could copy the disc despite the "protection." I'm not advocating copying the discs I am just trying to point out the stupidity of the "protection."

 

Let's call it No-CD patch. That sounds much better.

OK. Sometimes a game is huge and if You don't have enough free space on HD, You can have option to load data from CD/DVD disk.

But if the game requires 8 GB (for example) on HDD and ALL game data is installed on it, then the game should not use CD/DVD disk after installation. That must be a standard not an exception.

 

No-CD patch = illegal as per EULAs

If there was such a patch public ally endorsed, then many people could just share one copy. Fair? No...

 

UT games have been infamous for having official NO-CD/DVD patches incorporated into their updates, since they understand the annoyance of using a disc when the full game is already installed.

Other games should take that lead... especially when you actually purchased the game. And those that downloaded or whatever may only play it, but cannot use the key to go multi or anything.

 

You could search in www.gamecopyworld.com

And it clearly states in the main page that you must legally own the game and stuff, so it issent warez or anything similar.

[Just hope i dident break any rules with this post & if i did, im terrible sorry.]

 

I'm glad i found this thread. I have Crysis and it takes about one minute for it to start/load. I suspected all along it was the copy protection/Securom. The thing is its not just a sit and wait thing. The dvd player sounds like its coming to pieces clicking, thrashing, reloading. They need to fix this problem!

 

It's kind of sad that legitimate players that won't crack their .exes have to go through the horrible program that is Securom.

 

argh i thought i was the only one who had the cracking CD problem! Well i hope it doesn't mess up the CD drive but i downloaded the no CD patch

 

Indeed. A few of the other games which did this were Supreme Commander and the DoW series (THQ basically).

 

can anyone give me a direct link to a no dvd patch? I downloaded the one from gamecopyworld.com and loaded it onto daemon tools and i get the error message "conflict with software emulation detected". wtf?

 

if you have US version (and using XP or Vista 32-bit), get the MULTI-5 patch:
http://m0007.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_crysis.shtml#Crysis v1.0 [MULTI5] Fixed EXE

Read the NFO file (with Notepad) for instructions.

 

all i get is an mdf and mds file on download?

 

no you are download the mini-image.

you should get the Crysis v1.0 [MULTI5] Fixed EXE (3.2mb).
-its one exe file that you copy into your installation folder (first i recommend to make a copy/backup of the original Crysis.exe)