Making an ISO and use it the same way

[Agoston Bejo]

Hi!
Please tell me if there are more appropriate groups for this question.
I would like to play an old game which runs from CD, but is damn slow. Every
time the scene changes, it loads a new song from the CD, and this takes long
(also on my 2,4GHz computer, with a 52x LG CD reader). It doesn't use
ordinary files, however, so simply copying the contents of the CD to the
winchester and running the game from there doesn't work.
I was wondering if I could somehow rip the whole CD into an ISO file or
something, then use it as some "virtual CD drive". This would definitely
solve speed problems, I think.

Any ideas? (Or at least where to look after a solution?)

Thx

[Malke]

Agoston Bejo wrote:

> Hi!
> Please tell me if there are more appropriate groups for this question.
> I would like to play an old game which runs from CD, but is damn slow.
> Every time the scene changes, it loads a new song from the CD, and
> this takes long (also on my 2,4GHz computer, with a 52x LG CD reader).
> It doesn't use ordinary files, however, so simply copying the contents
> of the CD to the winchester and running the game from there doesn't
> work. I was wondering if I could somehow rip the whole CD into an ISO
> file or something, then use it as some "virtual CD drive". This would
> definitely solve speed problems, I think.
>
> Any ideas? (Or at least where to look after a solution?)
>
> Thx

You've got part of the idea. What you want is virtual cd drive software,
like VirtualCD or Alcohol or Farstone, or the like. The way it works is
that the software makes a number of virtual cd drives and it makes an
image of the game cd for you. You mount it when you want it, and then
you don't need to have the real cd in the real cd drive. It does run
faster since it is really coming from the hard drive.

Just be sure that whatever virtual drive software you use is compatible
with WinXP SP2. I know that you had to uninstall programs like Alcohol
*before* installing SP2.

HTH,

Malke
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