Unable to Play installed game on Acer Aspire 5315

I was wondering if anyone can help me. .

I have a Acer Aspire 5315 laptop and I have installed a game successfully on it, yet when I run the game the following error message appears

You are trying to start a copy-protected application which requires the original disc to be in the CD/DVD-ROM drive. Please check to make sure your disc is an original

The disc is original. I can access other things of the game fine (Data Editor etc) but just unable to actually play the game. .

I am new to the world of Vista and don't know where to start. .

Please help !!

Thanks in advance

Leigh

 

What game you try play is orignnal disc if not well then buy it


check company website to see if work in vista

 

It is the original disc. . hence me having an issue with it. .

The game is Football Manager 2008

 

i want to get that for my laptop when i get it, havent played it but if its anything like 2006 then i will love it dont see the point in getting 2007 as i will be getting 2008 anyway

 

Try making a backup disc using a DVD-burner like Alcohol 120%, Nero or Daemon tools. Then see if the game will run off the emulated back-up disc.

 

I have looked on SecROM, and it says I need to change the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers from the device manager.

If I uninstall the drivers should this solve the problem ?

Also could me taking the norton virus spywear thing possible run this?

 

I don't think its norton....and since you own the original cd, then you could prolly just patch the game so you don't need the cd...

 

Try running it as an Administrator.Or in compatibility mode with XP Sp2.

 

I ran it as Administrator and and uninstalled the drivers. . .it seemed to do the trick. .

Thanks

 

Try some no cd-patch, I had to do this with some games on my older computer(although they played fine on my notebook, I only patched c&c 3 when my dvd was at home and I not). I don't know why they bother doing all these things. They couldn't stop piracy anyway...