CD unrecognised

**A.Gentleman** · June 25, 2009, 01:39 AM

Righto, I bought Game of the Year Edition and it runs fine on my desktop PC but my laptop, which is far more powerful, won't even see that the CD is in the drive. I used my friend's copy of the original and expansion (non GOTY edition) to install it on my laptop but still my own disk is unrecognised.

Can anyone help either way?

Many thanks
A.Gentleman

**irishron** · June 25, 2009, 01:49 AM

On your laptop, did you first install it in its default location or another?
Can you play other multilayer dvds in your laptop dvd reader?
Are you using Vista?
Even though you say it's better than your desktop, what are your laptop specs?

**A.Gentleman** · June 25, 2009, 02:11 AM

I believe it was the default location.
Yes, I can play others. Total War seems to be the only one that I have a problem with.
Yes, I'm on Vista.

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz 2.40GHz
Ram 4.00 GB
32-bit Operating System

I hope this helps

**irishron** · June 25, 2009, 02:13 AM

Okay, it should play but others have had the same problem.
What other programs including Vista and M2TW do you have installed on your laptop?

**A.Gentleman** · June 25, 2009, 02:25 AM

Gods, a number of games.
Vista, M2TW, Steam, DoD, CS, Dawn of War, Bioshock, Dungeon Siege, Warcraft 3, Morrowind, Oblivion, Diablo 2, Rise of Legends, WoW. I think those are all of them. Mostly games really. Various mods for Morrowind and Oblivion too.

**irishron** · June 25, 2009, 09:14 AM

Dawn of War and Bioshock are Securom copy protection as is M2TW. Sega's version is not compatible with the others and will not let you play M2TW with them on your harddrive or even with system registries of them. I didn't go through your full list, just a couple that have caused problems in the past.