Issues installing Ubisoft games.

[[33rd]SgtM Sir vaLianT S03|AD|]

Hey guys,
I played Rainbow Six Vegas 2 at my cousins (for xbox) so i decided to buy Vegas 1 for PC (my vid card at the time couldn't handle vegas 2).
After a mess of problems installing, i sent it back to get another disk. That disk didn't work either, so sent that one back as well.
Since then i've gotten a new video card and thought i'd give vegas 2 a try. Also unable to install, getting disk errors and whatnot.
The kicker is, with the second vegas 1 disk and the vegas 2 disk both copied to my macbook fine, making me wonder if the disk wasn't bad, but the copyright software on the disk reacting to my DVD drive.
Does it seem probably to you that another DVD drive would fix the problem? Unfortunately because of the copyright protection, i need the disk to play the game, since it has to be in the drive to start the game up.

I'm eventually going to be building a new computer, so i could use the new DVD drive in that when the time comes.

thanks,
Val

[[33rd]LtGen.Gearjamr |BoSS|]

is the dvd dual layer read.most of the new games require dual layer

[[33rd]SgtM Sir vaLianT S03|AD|]

hmm, i'm not 100% sure.
I ended up ordering one tonight. I found quite a few people online that were having problems with the same DVD drive. I ordered the best rated drive on Newegg (made by LG).
we'll see if it solves the problem.

Val

[[33rd]SgtM Sir vaLianT S03|AD|]

I got my new drive in the mail yesterday, installed it, got it up and running and was able to install the game, but i still have an "insert cd-rom then restart application" error whenever i go to play it. It's not an issue with reading the DVD or the drive malfunctioning, but rather their Safedisk copy protection being ridiculous.
I'm just going through the rigamarole necessary with Ubisoft support to try to 'figure out the problem', then hopefully they'll give me a patch or something that'll override the safedisk.

[[33rd]Dynamic|AD|CO|HQ|]

Defiantly sounds like a UBIsoft issue. I don't think anything was wrong with your drive to begin with if you ask me. I couldn't get Vegas 1 working either, so I just went with Vegas 2

[[33rd]SgtM Sir vaLianT S03|AD|]

Support gave up on it, claiming in the end that they don't 'support' dvd-rw drives (90+% of drives out there?!).
I might send it back, if i remember to.

Not worth the fight. :-\