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Is there any free DVD-decoder for DVD-ROMS in The for Download (I use Windows XP), since it sucks that I can't play Far Cry or play any DVDs on PC.

Not sure about what you want but this:

[url=ttp://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/index.php]Daemon tools[/url] will let you emulate a DVD drive in windows.

I think he wants a dvd codec...

I have a DVD-ROM drive already, so codec is probaly the thing I'll need.

since the dvd player itself doesn't seem to be working have you tried checking the manufacturers websites for the latest drivers? if it won't play games or movies then it's probably the driver rather than a codec.

Well it won't play games or movies w/o a driver or if it's set up wrong. But it won't play movies if you have no codec. My geuss is that you need both. And if it's set up wrong you need to fix it.

All that my Windows says about the drive is that it's IDE DVD-ROM 16x, it doesn't say who made thew dam thing

What exactly won't play? Some games won't work w/ some dvd drives. Can you play cd-roms on it? If you can then any game that's not working won't work whatever you do to the drive and all you need to download is a DVD codec so movies will work.

darthdavid wrote:What exactly won't play? Some games won't work w/ some dvd drives. Can you play cd-roms on it? If you can then any game that's not working won't work whatever you do to the drive and all you need to download is a DVD codec so movies will work.

Only far Cry won't (it's also my only DVD-ROM game, but CD-ROM games with out any problems (and I can play movies now as well (found CD that corrected that problem.)))

Then the problem is farcry. See if you can exchange it for the cdrom version.

Have you tried the game in another computer? Try looking at the disk with Isobuster and see if it reads it correctly. If it does, then its something on your end, not the game.

To add something to the DVD-decoder thing, nVidia has a DVD decoder on their site on a 30 day trial (read: passable if you try ) and is supposed to be great quality.

Ace Pace wrote:To add something to the DVD-decoder thing, nVidia has a DVD decoder on their site on a 30 day trial (read: passable if you try ) and is supposed to be great quality.

Psst! Its either a game or drive issue. This has nothing to do with software decoders.

Hell, the damn game may have some sort of DRM on it that his drive may not recognize. This has happened before with older games way back in the day.

Vertigo1 wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:To add something to the DVD-decoder thing, nVidia has a DVD decoder on their site on a 30 day trial (read: passable if you try ) and is supposed to be great quality.

Psst! Its either a game or drive issue. This has nothing to do with software decoders.

Hell, the damn game may have some sort of DRM on it that his drive may not recognize. This has happened before with older games way back in the day.

Psst, I wanted to adress the topic question

Ace Pace wrote:Psst, I wanted to adress the topic question

Yes, but if you actually followed the thread, it ended up being something completely different. Furthermore, it wouldn't matter if Lord Revan had a codec or not since that doesn't apply to games. However, this is all moot since Revan can clearly play movies just fine, so doesn't need another software application to play movies.

Vertigo1 wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:Psst, I wanted to adress the topic question

Yes, but if you actually followed the thread, it ended up being something completely different. Furthermore, it wouldn't matter if Lord Revan had a codec or not since that doesn't apply to games. However, this is all moot since Revan can clearly play movies just fine, so doesn't need another software application to play movies.

I've read the thread, but I was thinking maybe, maybe someone else came into this thread expecting a codec link, maybe for his own troubles.

If they did then they could've asked. No need to pre-emptively attac... er ... link.

It's driver issue (the Battle for Middle earth won't work either).

Ace Pace wrote:

Vertigo1 wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:Psst, I wanted to adress the topic question

Yes, but if you actually followed the thread, it ended up being something completely different. Furthermore, it wouldn't matter if Lord Revan had a codec or not since that doesn't apply to games. However, this is all moot since Revan can clearly play movies just fine, so doesn't need another software application to play movies.

I've read the thread, but I was thinking maybe, maybe someone else came into this thread expecting a codec link, maybe for his own troubles.

And I appreciated it.

I know my dad got one off of a dvd (he loved it more than the one he was using.) I think it was a harry potter dvd or something.