Supreme Commander Forum

I just installed Supreme Commander on the 9.0.0 beta, and when I try to open it it says "No disk inserted. Please insert the original Supreme Commander CD/DVD." If the disk is removed, the message changes to "No CD/DVD-ROM drive found." I'm running it on a quad-core imac.

Hi

The Digital Rights Management (DRM) software in this program
prevents it from running in CrossOver. If you are in a legal jurisdiction
which allows removal of such software, you may have luck running this
program. Unfortunately, CodeWeavers, because they are subject to the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, will be unable to support you.

But i have the direct2drive version which does not need the disk and it works well, also it is only £2.50 (on Direct2Drive) at the moment for both

Alex

Robbie Eberhart-Garah wrote:

I just installed Supreme Commander on the 9.0.0 beta, and when I try
to open it it says "No disk inserted. Please insert the original
Supreme Commander CD/DVD." If the disk is removed, the message
changes to "No CD/DVD-ROM drive found." I'm running it on a
quad-core imac.

Hi,

As Alex points out, this error seems fairly indicative of disc-based DRM
failing -- such a failure may only affect Macs however (seeing as there's
no reports of such failures using linux over at wineHQ)...due to limitations
in the OSX scsi drivers...

Cheers!

Just patch Supreme Commander to version 1.0.3220,
this is the OFFICIAL patch, which, among other things, removes the DVD-inquiry.
Later patches won´t work after some version, so don´t try to install them.

Supreme Commander 1.0.3220 patch

I patched but it doesn't work neither, still same message about the requirements...

Some many patches like this (especially the official ones), do not remove
all the disc DRM routines ; GTA:VC is so disposed -- that title appears
to install correctly on both Mac & linux, but subsequently will not run due
to the disc based DRM. When you apply the official patch, GTA:VC does start
and run very well on linux -- it still fails to start on Mac OSX with the
same error message ..ie; 'no disc in drive' or whatever...

...what actually goes wrong, is that the Mac didn't (doesn't, can't) read a
set of registry key variables from the disc at installation time ; linux does.
As linux does read these values, when you apply the patch, everything works
as the patch finds the required keys in registry. When such patches cannot
find the required registry keys, it fails with the same error because seeing
as it can't find the keys in registry, it tries to read them off the disc again,
which the Mac cannot do due to the design of the OSX scsi driver -- catch22.

As all these keys are invariably unique, importing the keys from another disc
does not work. Sorry to say, if you're on Mac you should avoid disc based
releases at all costs, unless you are 110% sure there's no disc based DRM being
used -or- you are 120% sure any official patch removed enough of the DRM components
and/or works in crossover/wine on Mac OSX.

Cheers!

ps: at the time of this writing, the GamersGate bundle version is on special for
$7 (for another 22hours from now) - note that the online version of Securom does
typically work in CXG on both Mac & linux...

Hi

are you sure it is a DRM problem because if you patch to the latest patch, DRM iS definitely removed. if it is DRM it maybe that you have not run the latest patch which usually does not work due to .net dependancies which then means you have to run the updater through a virtual machine or windows.

Alex