To Backup or not to backup, that is the real question ?

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P.S. Bought another game recently.Once I finished installing the game, I chose to play it. However a message appears saying "please insert original cd disc instead of the backup cd". wats that about ??? I had the original cd in my cd-rom. Either SecuROM need to do better cd protections or someguy made a beautiful cd backup ?

Yeah secuROM can be a real pain for some ppl. As for the question about some guy made a good copy. Where did you buy it from ? (privately i take it). You can tell if its a original though if you look hard enough and obviously Original games are mass produced (pressed) so you should be able to tell that way. It is easy to creat disk images these days but ive yet to see one that would leave me in doubt as to if its original or not You can always get around the problem with sercuROM by using a nocd of course. (not that you should have to mind if its a original). I always use nocd,fixed exe etc to keep my original disks perfect and its a pain having to insert disks just to play a game any-how.