Cant get DPM with Daemon Pro

[carenza]

Just tried Pro after a suggestion here http://forum.daemon-tools.cc/f18/usi...program-22968/ and DPM does not work - Comes up with an error "DPM assocciated call failed"

Just before this I can hear the disc going fast then slow and so on and Alcohol does exactely the same thing but only on CDs, DVD work fine (havent tried a DVD in Daemon)

The drive is a TSSTcorp CDDVW SN-S083A

The thing is I only have 4 games on my laptop, 1 has no protection, 1 is on DVD so Alcohol works on that so ony 2 left that I cant copy the discs (usually play games on my PS3) and one of those is a mission based game so I will only play it once so really I only have Civ IV Colonization left.

Also I do not plan on getting more games for my laptop, mainly due to new game specs being to high, so any bit of software even if it has a short demo period is fine as long as I can make the last couple of images I need.

Any ideas?

[Blazkowicz]

Which DT Pro version?

[carenza]

The latest one, just dowloaded the trial.

Followup question - is DPM measurement different for different types of protection?

The DVD that worked I think if SafeDisc but the other two CDs are SecureRom

[Blazkowicz]

Are there any scratches on the cds? Which cds are these?

Only Tages and StarForce/SecuROM DPM are different.

[carenza]

The DVD that works is Civ IV Complete

The CDs are:-

Civ IV Colinization - brand new / perfect

SpellForce - Shadow of the Phoenix Expansion CD1 (the cd you need to play the game, the game is quite old but the disc still looks in very good condition (no scraches).

[Blazkowicz]

Notebook drives aren't good for beating copy protections, e. g. reading DPM.

[carenza]

Its just annoying, for games like Spellforce I will play through it once (so not too much of a problem to use the actual disc) then trade it on or in this case give it away being that it is so old. But for games like Civ etc I play them for a bit, get board and move onto the next one eventually going back to the forst one and so on.

I have the image for Civ IV, and Galactic Civilization has no protection but I still need to carry the Colinization CD.

Notebook drives aren't good for beating copy protections, e. g. reading DPM.

As I said in the other post, VCD did produce images but the games detect VCD and dont work so I cant actually check if they work.

[Blazkowicz]

VCD uses different method - hard method to get DPM info.
You can try BlindWrite 6 to create an image (automatic profile) and DT Pro/Lite can mount b6t images.

[carenza]

I will give that a try - be back soon!

[carenza]

Civ IV Colinization is now detecting Daemon tools but Blindwrite did give me an image.

Girlfriend wants to Facebook so not sure when I will be back.

[Blazkowicz]

Use YASU (press on cloak) and mount into virtual IDE drive of DT Pro Advanced.

[carenza]

Good news and bad.

Good first - I can not ge Colinization working.

Bad news Spellforce does not run at all, I get a popup saying spellforce.exe has crashed etc.

Previously when I had things like Alcohol installed the CD checking routines would just crash (files like ar.exe, ar2.exe ar5.exe) no fancy pop-up pointing you to a website to tell you wats wrong. When I had them uninstalled spellforce would work but as it now does not I guess I have installed something else it does not like.

I may try a reinstall on it but it is an old game I never got round to playing so not that important but I would like it to run.

[carenza]

Will Daemonscript allow me to create a script that will start YASU and insert the image then start the game.

[Blazkowicz]

DAEMON Script won't work correctly - very old version and not updated so far