Problems with University

[kaoz666]

Ok, here's my dilemma. 1st and foremost, I'd like to state before you read on that I did NOT PIRATE THE GAME.  I bought a physical copy of the game, and created .iso files in my back up because my CD/DVD drive has a nasty habit of pitting a nice little ring in the middle of my discs. So the actual disk is pretty much unreadable now, hence I opt to use the .iso files on Daemon Tools Pro (Paid for). Anyways, I recently tried installing Open For Business, but when I fired the game up got no display. The sound played perfectly, but for whatever reason the screen was gray. The HUD appeared normal, but the town display showed nothing. So I uninstalled it, but for whatever reason it uninstalled my University Data as well. I have the base game, UNI & NL. When I fire up NL it plays as normal, but when the town selection screen comes up, it gives me a warning that if I proceed, my colleges will be deleted and all my young adults will be grown up and moved into the Sim Bin, which I don't want.

So now we get to the root of my problem. I open up Daemon Tools and mount the .iso files just as I did 3 years ago to initially install UNI and NL on my PC. It reads the file, but then shows a dialog saying:

"Please match sure The Sims 2 University disc is in the drive. Press OK to terminate and restart the application."

Then it closes. When I explore the file and hit autorun, it does the same thing. So my question is, does .iso files deteriorate after time or is there something I'm not doing right. Should I uninstall EVERYTHING and then reinstall it back to back to back? Mind you, I back up my files constantly, so a reinstall wouldn't force me to start over. Has anyone else had this problem and if so, how did you resolve it?

[kaoz666]

An admin can feel free to lock this. I troubleshot the problem elsewhere and go a resolution that worked.

[karld]

My wife runs this game, I run a gaming ring with ISO images. Kids can mess up originals while playing sowe ISO all originals onto a server then allow playig off the images. This is a security protection issue from what I can understand. Being technical by nature I would advise using a utility called YASU along with daemon tools. We run most of our images like this and it allows Safedisc and Securom protection to run properly.

http://forum.daemon-tools.cc/f13/new-yasu-v1-07-released-15702/

  Remember this should only be done with games that you own and not PIRATED stuff. If you like the game then spend the money.

[Jenna]

An admin can feel free to lock this. I troubleshot the problem elsewhere and go a resolution that worked.

*sneaks in, slaps a lock on the thread, and wanders off*