[steve1341]

Anybody know how to play Disk Image off a disk image?

I bought Doom 3 and I am using an PowerMac G5, but loading from CD is very slow, and cumbersome.

I tried to make an image of the CD using DiskImage but it would not load (that is Doom).

Hope you guys can help.

[powertrippin]

The real problem is finding a disk image to run Doom3 off from. I tried using a valid copy on a friend's G5, but loading all the time from the CD was totally slow and laggy. Using DiskImage, I went into preferences and selected the 'burn as one initial session, no multi' and it seems to have cleared up the problem completely. The monitor is now displaying crisply again, no softer blended edges at all.

It seems that your situation might be slightly different than my own, however.

- Rob

[Big Mac]

The original poster is not referring to burning a copy of the disc but running from a disk image. I don't have Doom 3 yet, but I imagine it's worth a try.

[Randman]

Steve, your signature cartoon is way, way over the limits for signature rules here.

And to answer (maybe) your question, have you tried it via Toast instead?

[blizzard]

Can someone confirm that Doom 3 loads the maps off the CD instead of just installing everything onto the hard drive and using the CD only as an anti-piracy check as every other game released since 1999 seems to have done? Seems a little off to me...especially since Doom 3 for the PC just installs everything. I doubt the Mac version is different.

[Marid]

Originally Posted by blizzard

Can someone confirm that Doom 3 loads the maps off the CD instead of just installing everything onto the hard drive and using the CD only as an anti-piracy check as every other game released since 1999 seems to have done? Seems a little off to me...especially since Doom 3 for the PC just installs everything. I doubt the Mac version is different.

Since the game folder is 1.5 GB, I'd say it doesn't use the DVD for content. Toast has worked in the past when DiskCopy hasn't, but not all the time.

[Lefterer Guy]

Ditto. The drive spins up at launch to check if the disk is there, but does not read any data while playing.

[Abit667]

Has anyone had any luck with making a disc image that works? It's a pain to have the dvd around all the time, especially on a laptop. I tried making a disc image and mounting it in toast but the game doesn't start. Are there any of those nocd things for this game yet? On my pc I didn't have this problem, it's annoying that so many mac games are like this.

I've encountered the same problem with an older game, Max Payne as well. If you don't put the cd in at all it will say please insert the disc, Doom3 does the same thing, but if you mount an image, both will quit and not run at all (well max payne quits with an "unrecoverable error" while doom3 just doesn't do anything). Is there any other way to mount these images so that the game doesn't know?

[jamil5454]

I think we all know the real reason we want to be able to play without the DVD, now that we know Doom 3 doesn't load from the DVD during play after all...

[joe]

Originally Posted by jamil5454

I think we all know the real reason we want to be able to play without the DVD, now that we know Doom 3 doesn't load from the DVD during play after all...

The reason probably changes from person to person. In my case I'd appreciate the convenience of not having to swap discs every time I want to do something different. But before this turns into another debate on the merits of key-disc copy protection, I probably swap discs more than most. I have an EyeTV200 and I record my fav shows and movies onto DVDs regularly.

[demograph68]

I have a cracked Doom 3 that doesn't require a disk image or the DVD.

[joe]

Just out of curiosity, does Doom3 copy protection support a 2nd optical drive? Has anyone tried this? Example, I own an OEM dual 1.42Ghz MDD tower. It has a 2nd optical drive bay which I haven't used so far. I wouldn't get the 2nd drive strictly for Doom3. But it would be an added benefit if it cut down on all the disc swapping (again related to my EyeTV200 DVD archive).

[Cadaver]

Originally Posted by joe

Just out of curiosity, does Doom3 copy protection support a 2nd optical drive? Has anyone tried this? Example, I own an OEM dual 1.42Ghz MDD tower. It has a 2nd optical drive bay which I haven't used so far. I wouldn't get the 2nd drive strictly for Doom3. But it would be an added benefit if it cut down on all the disc swapping (again related to my EyeTV200 DVD archive).

This works fine. I have a firewire DVR-107D attached to my G5 and I can leave the Doom 3 DVD in the firewire drive. The game will find it and launch jut fine.

[heavyboots]

You're kidding... so I get to go hunt up a cracked version just so I can semi-conveniently play a game I own? Come on Aspyr! Let's keep it within limits. I'd practically prefer network authorization ala Halflife 2 to having to listening to my DVD drive spin up and down all the time (not to mention having to haul it to work so I can play at lunch!).

[joe]

Originally Posted by heavyboots

You're kidding... so I get to go hunt up a cracked version just so I can semi-conveniently play a game I own? Come on Aspyr! Let's keep it within limits.

A friend of mine that bought the PC version said the disc had to be present to play the game on WIndows too. So it's likely Aspyr didn't have any choice in the matter for the Mac version. I'm not happy about it, and I sincerely believe this is the most ineffective and annoying type of copy protection ever devised. But I love this game - scared the crap out of me the 1st few nights after I bought it And it's still amazing to watch even as a bystander! So the inconvenience doesn't seem as big a deal to me for now.

I dunno - maybe after I've had the game a few years it will piss me off to have to riffle through a stack of discs just to play it. But for now I'm too blown away to care