my back up copy doesn't work

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  1. floyd

    floyd New Member

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    Since I can't find my original copy of Arcanum anywhere in the house, I was glad to find a copy of the play disc I made a few months ago. However, when I put it into the cdrom drive, I do get the small start menu (you know, where you can choose 'play arcanum', 'view readme' and so on), but when I click on 'play arcanum' nothing happens!
    I've looked at the contents of the copied play disc and everything seems to be in order (as far as I can tell), but why doesn't it want to run the game? Is Arcanum copy protected or something? Am I missing something?

    Anyway, if the back up copy I made is utterly worthless, is there any other way that I can still play Arcanum? It's still installed on my pc. I hate to think I'll have to buy another game - if I ever manage to find one, that is...

    Thanks.
     
  2. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    I believe you could fix this with a no-cd crack. Check megagames or some other place.
     
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    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    Hey, thanks a lot. I didn't know I just needed to replace the original .exe file. It's working just fine now. :)
     
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