PC version Problems

[Zemlezett]

Yeh, So I haven't posted in a year or something, but I assume you guys could help me with something. This place hasn't changed much by the looks of it.

Anyways, I start up my PC FF8 game (well actually, it's my sister, I'm trying to help her) after fully installing it. All goes fine until you start with the new game option at which it says "Insert Disc 1". The point is that the disc 1 is ALREADY THERE. In the Cd drive. So I tried taking and out and putting it in again. And got:

WRONG DISC

CAUTION

This was with an eclaimation mark on an otherwise blank screen.

Now, I tried every CD and all that sort of thing, and I tried it on this family computer and it worked through fine, but for some reason, on her comp it doesn't. I'm guessing that it's a problem with the CD driver refusing to recognize the CD for some bizzare reason. I can't find anything that seems to help for troubleshooting.

So is there anything that can help? If you agree with me, and think it IS the CD drive, is there any sort of program which will fool it into playing the game? Or is my sister pretty stuffed in that regard?

Thanks for any help, it's all very appreciated.

[crono_logical]

You've probably disabled Auto-Insert notification/play CDs automatically for the CD drive on that PC, so Windows doesn't realise the CD's changed and thinks the previous one is still there. If you can find TweakUI for whatever version of Winows you have (search Google or the MS site), you should be able to re-enable it in there under Paranoia :p

[lonely]

You can always try installing the game on her comp first, you should have an installing disk in with the game, then once you've installed it you should be able to play it.:D

[Sacred Phoenix]

I had that problem too, all i had to do was put the disc in my cd burner and it played fine from there, but it wouldn't work in my cd rom drive why?? i have no idea, but it did. So if you have a burner try it from there if it doesn't work, i don't know. good luck!!

[Silent Warrior]

Scratched CD? Multiple CD-ROM/R-drives (fix this by careening through regedit)? No virus or anything? Patch(es) applied? Old hardware that's about to cave in?

[Zemlezett]

Thanks for your help guys. Thankfully my sister had a CD burner, but I also tried out TweakUI for good measure, and both of them worked. perhaps needless to say, my sister was estatic.:) It makes my day seeing her happy like that, so I really appreciate your help on this.

Cheers.

[sirtricksalot]

i downloaded ff7 for pc from the internet now its asking me for disk1.is there any way to get around that????

[Rhi]

*snort*

buy the game

[Cooperal]

This case is always coming up with old games. If you haven't heard already, windows xp doesn't much like old games that was often made with some exeptions. my FFVII for pc works, but i've heard my friends getting the insert disc errors from later games like unreal tournament 2004. As for the FFVII that problem that someones having with the downloaded version I really shouldn't be saying this but the case is that disc one isn't actually the disc one it is talking about. The second disc is infact the proper disc one. My game may crash for things not related to the discs themselves anyway and they are purchased ones. (I really don't wanna get flamed I just can't help, but help others). Back to FFVIII though. It's proabably the windows xp problem. Their are people that solve these problems with new and old games just incase (or they're to lazy to find the disc). If you search around you could possibly come across finding a FFVIII no cd crack so that it doesn't end up asking you again. Hope that may clear something up because I like being thanked. :p