Using the No-CD patch

[Helbel65]

Hi all,

I'm using the No-CD patch for Civ 2 MGE. I found it on this site and it's very useful because the CD itself is getting very worn now.
However, I find that I don't get any background music during gameplay. I get intro music and game sounds but no music. When I put the CD in I get everything.
Any ideas why this might be?

Thanks!

Helen

 

[Cedric Greene]

The music tracks are on the cd, they are just like an audio cd tracks. If you have a CD burner you can burn the civ2.exe to it and then whatever audio tracks you want, however you would then need to have it in the drive. I personally just use an mp3 player for music while playing.

 

[SideshowBob]

How does this no-cd-patch work? I'm going to have my computer rebuilt. Meanwhile I'm going to have acces to an old laptop that I think should be able to run Civ2. I think I might get Civ 2 transfered from my computer to the laptop somehow, and I have a new release of the vanilla Civ that allows you to play without the CD. But will it screw up the lap top if I start Civ2 and the game looks for a CD-drive that doesn't excist.

Hm, okey, I also have a Ultimate Classics Collection version of Civ 2 with MP and Fantastic Worlds.

Is there some way to make the computer go directly into the game without checking for a cd? Or will it always do that, and then say "You can play this time without the videos and music and so on"?

 

[Mercator]

Vanilla Civ2 doesn't need a no-CD patch. I really doubt failing to find a CD drive can in any screw up the laptop.

 

[Titi]

I agree with Mercator, I don't think Civ2 won't run because your laptop doesn't have any CD drive.
Anyway, you can still fake it (using Daemon tools for example).