Hi,
First, try mapping the DVD drive onto your son's computer. From My Computer, click Tools, then Map Network Drive. Find the shared DVD and assign it a drive letter. Depending on the game, you might have to uninstall and reinstall using this drive letter as the source. Also, you'll always need to have this drive mapped when you start the game and probably while you are playing it. This could be a problem if you need to use the DVD for something else at the same time.
Second, if your son's computer has a big enough hard drive, you can run a virtual DVD drive. I haven't used one in some time but used to use virtual CD drives all the time to save wear on my game CDs. Do a search on virtual drives and see if you can find anything that might work. The drawback is that you'll have to make an image of the DVD on your son's computer -- hence the need for a big HD.
But, actually, getting a DVD is no big deal. You can get them for under $20US and installing them is almost a no brainer. EDIT: You can install the DVD in place of the CD, straight swap.
--Pete
Quote:Alright, so I bought my sons two computers from a friend, both decent for the price I paid, however these computers have CD-ROM's, not DVD-ROM drives. There is no room to expand, but even if I could, I don't want to buy any more "stuff" if I don't have too. Both computers have Windows XP and the latest patch.Two ideas.
So my wife's computer is running Windows Vista. All of our computers on on the same network. I read an article about sharing a DVD drive over the network, so I enabled her drive for sharing and it worked! I could install the video game my son had been grilling me about on his computer! The catch? It would NOT play - it kept saying, "insert disc into drive". Humm, well the disc is in the drive it was installed with, but the game does not see it on the network, or if it does, perhaps it is an administrative issue?
Any ideas how to get this to work?
First, try mapping the DVD drive onto your son's computer. From My Computer, click Tools, then Map Network Drive. Find the shared DVD and assign it a drive letter. Depending on the game, you might have to uninstall and reinstall using this drive letter as the source. Also, you'll always need to have this drive mapped when you start the game and probably while you are playing it. This could be a problem if you need to use the DVD for something else at the same time.
Second, if your son's computer has a big enough hard drive, you can run a virtual DVD drive. I haven't used one in some time but used to use virtual CD drives all the time to save wear on my game CDs. Do a search on virtual drives and see if you can find anything that might work. The drawback is that you'll have to make an image of the DVD on your son's computer -- hence the need for a big HD.
But, actually, getting a DVD is no big deal. You can get them for under $20US and installing them is almost a no brainer. EDIT: You can install the DVD in place of the CD, straight swap.
--Pete
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