Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Forum

Tested it on Mac, running crossover 10.1.2. Software installs fine, but will not run because it will not recognize that the CD is in the drive, when it in fact is.

While I concede that this is likely a DRM issue, I believe that it is misleading to rank this Silver when it is not common and public knowledge how to remedy this issue. For the general person looking to run this program, they should recognize that for them (as for myself), this is definitely KNOWN NOT TO WORK.

I am welcome to change my vote on this and rescind this, if someone is actually willing to post a way to fix this problem and get it to run.

Hi Jason.

You're right. It's an DRM issue. In the Tips & tricks section i post some time ago a workarround to bypass the "please make sure the CD is in the drive". However this "fix" is a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of the United Estates, so the CX staff edited the post.

The link you found in the that post ( http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/dmca ) gives you a hint in what you must do (Just read carefull the first lines).

I dont think that this is a KNOW NOT TO WORK.

Hi,

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/dmca

...that is the cause, and also -why- nobody can tell you how to go about
'fixing' things in these forums -- that is why the tips&tricks have been
edited ; the postings included links to DRM circumvention software which
as detailed above, will be removed from this site due to legal considerations...

..ergo, nobody will ever post a way to fix this problem and get this app
to run, in this forum ; it can't happen. As for the silver medal, that was
'loosely agreed upon' as the highest medal ranking that a disc based release
like this should be ranked ; personally I think bronze is more appropriate
(and by definition of the ranks, that's tersely more correct). In any event,
the silver ranking is going to stand - if it were gold, I'd be annoyed =)

... as for more correctly identifying the situation, that is what the 'Distributor
Comparison Table' is for. (You could have done this yourself as an advocate),
but I just did it for you - click on the 'Admin Dists' link at the bottom of
the details page, entered the CD/DVD target as 'not_work', and a short note
as to why I just did that -- if you look at the Details page now, you will
note the change -- you can (and should ;) do this on any C4 app's page you
happen to have a release of ; clearly, doing so helps alleviate some confusion....

...just so you know, the design of Apple's scsi driver pretty much prevents
most all disc based DRM mechanisms from working, at all ... simple 'CD Check'
mechanisms work, but that's it - the rest will fail. In linux, the scsi driver
allows for -some- of these DRM systems to work, but by no means all of them...
and because of this situation, it is best to -avoid- disc based media/releases
if you don't want to keep running into the same problem. The exceptions to that
are those cases where the game publisher/distributor have released an official
patch that removes said DRM, or you can register/activate a disc installation
online .. or you live in a jurisdiction/locale where laws allow the circumvention
of DRM software under the auspices of 'fair usage' (which we cannot talk about
in these forums) ...

Cheers!