Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Forum

When I try to run Baldur's Gate II I get a message that says that the computer doesn't detect a cd-rom drive and that it need one to run the game. The computer I'm sitting at is a Intel iMac running OS X Tiger. Is there any one that have encounterd the same problem and solved it?

– Joakim

I'm having the same problem. the installation went fine, patches and all, the configuration went fine as well, but when I click play I get a white screen. I haven't let this screen sit for more than a minute, so it's possible it's just loading very slowly I suppose, but if I hit escape to get out of the screen I get the "no cd-rom drive detected" error. I'm also running tiger on a macbook pro. if you've solved the problem, or if anyone else has any tips, let me know! thanks!

A common problem is that MacOS does not allow direct SCSI access to cdrom drives, but many(mostly all) Windows copy protection systems need this. Thus those DRM systems do not work on OSX.

(besides that, many copy protection systems load Windows device driver rootkits. We have a fake Windows kernel for this, but it is far from perfect)

Stefan, thanks for your reply. I believe you, but what confuses me is that it seems several people here have successfully installed and run bg2 on OSX. why didn't they have the same problem?

as it turns out, after some tinkering, the cd-rom problem has gone away. however, even though I can start the game and configure my play settings at startup, when it comes time to actually begin the game I just get a white screen while the disc spins. If someone who has successfully installed and played the game on OSX could post their crossover configuration settings for it and any little modifications they had to make, I'd appreciate that.

The copying of all four discs to the hard drive in the same folder for a full install was a good tip. it works around the swapping discs in the drive problem perfectly.

the entire problem here, though, may revolve around my using a macbook pro rather than a desktop mac. hardware and drivers differ somewhat in these respects. it seems more tinkering is required.

Just putting mine in too.

I am having the exact same problems as barrasargtlin.

I also have a macbook pro. Same white screen... ironically I even installed from a folder created by copying the discs into it.

Thanks for any help any of the pros might have.

It has to do with the MacBook Pro's NVIDIA chipset. I run this game in Windows Vista through Bootcamp and to make it playable I had to fiddle with the graphics settings. Basically you need to run the config program, select 2D and 3D Options under Graphics, and check the three Software...BLT checkboxes. Also you may have to disable 3D Acceleration if it's enabled.

Is there a solution to this "doesn't detect cd-rom drive" problem?

Yes, there is. I posted one in the Tips & Tricks section under "Do Full Install, Bypass CD Switch Bug".