Phlamethrower1.1 0 Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 Here's the situation: My computer's CD drive is loud, and when playing VC/GTA3 it's usually running full speed to read the radio off the CD (despite the fact it only spends about a tenth of the time actually reading). So I decided to try the option in VC to copy the radio stations to my hard disk, so that they'd be read from there and save me from getting deafened. But the problem is that the game is still reading them from the CD Has anyone else tried the option and can shed some light on this? Or does anyone know of any (free) proggies to cache the CD or something? Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites
facboy 0 Posted June 30, 2003 Share Posted June 30, 2003 I have the same problem...maybe it's to do with where u have the game installed? mine is not installed on the 'primary partition' which the tech support says is required to make the game work at all - if that isn't the most ridiculous requirement i've ever heard, then... anyway, my game works fine apart from the constant CD access problem - there are ways around that though ...search for other posts related to this topic. Link to post Share on other sites
259 0 Posted July 5, 2003 Share Posted July 5, 2003 I have loads and loads of disk space so I copy the radio files to my disk and there's no hiccup ever during gameplay... it could be in your partition tables or the registry that makes it read from the cd everyone once in a while... Link to post Share on other sites
Phlamethrower1.1 0 Posted July 14, 2003 Author Share Posted July 14, 2003 I have the same problem...maybe it's to do with where u have the game installed? mine is not installed on the 'primary partition' which the tech support says is required to make the game work at all - if that isn't the most ridiculous requirement i've ever heard, then... Damnit, I thought it might have been some of R*'s dodgy programming - my copy of VC is installed on my second hard disk (1st one got full up so I took the cheap route of plugging an old on back in again and using that). Guess I'll have to do another forum search or something. Thanks anyway guys! Link to post Share on other sites
Natedogg. 1 Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 I have the same problem...maybe it's to do with where u have the game installed? mine is not installed on the 'primary partition' which the tech support says is required to make the game work at all - if that isn't the most ridiculous requirement i've ever heard, then... Damnit, I thought it might have been some of R*'s dodgy programming - my copy of VC is installed on my second hard disk (1st one got full up so I took the cheap route of plugging an old on back in again and using that). Guess I'll have to do another forum search or something. Thanks anyway guys! Yeah I say some of the programming I mean there's tons of glitches and mistakes and stuff soo I wouldn't doubt it. Link to post Share on other sites
GTA3Freak-2001 22 Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 I thought you could choose when installing if you wanted the radio stations installed on your Hard Drive? Well I had that option. Link to post Share on other sites
facboy 0 Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 yes u can choose that option, and i did choose it, but the stupid program seems to keep reading them from the CD anyway. i did find a work around, after installing a, er, patch , the game stopped accessing the CD (at all ). which was nice, so it seems to be some bone-head copy protection scheme that checks to see if the CD is there constantly. i actually monitored the program's file access, and on start-up it does this mass-search for the Audio directory and its contents (ie it looks in C:\Audio, D:\Audio, E:\Audio, etc) and it stops when it finds the CD drive - doesn't matter if it finds the audio files in eg C:\Audio, it keeps looking anyway. interestingly, it didn't seem to be accessing the CD (at least at an OS level) when swapping music tracks in-game, but the CD drive was obviously being accessed, so i don't really know what's going on. Link to post Share on other sites
GTA3Freak-2001 22 Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Yeah I know it does a CD check to confirm a legit copy of the game but I get what you mean about why you wanted the game not to read from your noisy CD-ROM. Link to post Share on other sites
JENKO 0 Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 i get this prob aswel when accessing the drive the game pauses for a slight sec which piss`s me off any way of stopping this? Link to post Share on other sites
facboy 0 Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 yeah u can 'patch' it (think laterally). btw, i am merely pointing out this possibility, while not condoning/endorsing this course of action in any legally actionable manner . it is stupid though, people shouldn't have to resort to this to make a store-bought game run properly. the exact same problem existed in gta3 and had to be fixed in a patch - as has been commented on many times before, why are many of the bugs that existed in gta3's initial PC release also present in its sequel? Link to post Share on other sites
Phreak2k 0 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) funny.I 'patched' it and 'it' didnt work.Before ,i could run the game but now,after i 'patched' it,it runs.too bad. In other words...the 'patch' doesnt work. Edited July 23, 2003 by Phreak2k Link to post Share on other sites
GTA3Freak-2001 22 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 The patch for Vice City is only nessary if you experience graphical curruption. Link to post Share on other sites
facboy 0 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 lol, i don't think he means the 1.1 patch. i had that problem too, ie patch not working. i think i deleted all the config file in the save directory and it was alright. that or i d/l'ed the patch from somewhere else. after u have patched it, the game will still access the CD if it is in the drive. but it doesn't *have* to, if u get my drift. Link to post Share on other sites
Phreak2k 0 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 ah.pm me and we can 'talk'. Link to post Share on other sites
