Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems Question about CD and static files

First let me say this is NOT a piracy question. I legitimately own the game and have so since it's release.

I seem to get lag whenever the game wants to access the game disc. I did a MAX install but it looks like some of the static files are still there and not on the hard drive.

Is there anyway to copy those files to the hard drive and get the game to ignore the CD?

Thanks for any help.

~dev

Why? Leave the CD in you drive and all will go fine.

As I said in the post, I get bad lag when the game accesses the CD. It seems to do this every few seconds or so. Why is this?

~dev

Hi,

A full installation should only access the CD for cinematics and as part of the safedisc protection on startup. Accessing the CDROM drive during the game would certainly result in lag, especially if the drive is idle.

Here are some suggestions,

Check the installation size (minus size of the run\dynamic and run\savegames directories), reinstall, and see if that fixes the problem (did reinstalling change the installation size?).

If that fails, search this forum for information on installing the game by manually extrating the .rar archives contained on the installation CDs, using a program such as WinRAR. Try the FAQ under technical support.

Alternatively, if you have the room, you could use a program such as DAEMON tools (search the web for it) to create a virtual CDROM drive from an image of the play CD.

Good luck!

-Fabian