No CD/DVD-ROM drive found (For the mother o' greebus)

[Deadlyfluffball]

Hello party people, I have just made an account and desperately need some lov-, I mean help.

Basically I own a copy of Fallout 3 for the PC that I used to play on bootcamp, which no longer works (tragic story) so I decided to try wine. Basically the disc doesn't want to read on my laptop but it read on an old desktop that doesn't have a functioning keyboard, so I transferred the files of the disc onto a folder and eventually got that baby on my laptop. Everything seemed to work fine until the message "No CD/DVD-ROM drive found" popped up.

Apparently there's some black magic you can do with winecfg but I'm no computer wizard, so I need one to explain things to me with crayons. (Preferably red)

Here are visual aids to my basic situation, as I'm bad at splannin' things

[dimesio]

You can mount an iso as a loopback device and add the mounted volume as a CD-ROM in winecfg (click Show Advanced), but if the game expects to interact with real hardware, that won't work.

[Deadlyfluffball]

You can mount an iso as a loopback device and add the mounted volume as a CD-ROM in winecfg (click Show Advanced), but if the game expects to interact with real hardware, that won't work.

That sounds useful, I will google what those things are. I will try it when I can and report back!

[Deadlyfluffball]

You can mount an iso as a loopback device and add the mounted volume as a CD-ROM in winecfg (click Show Advanced), but if the game expects to interact with real hardware, that won't work.

Okay I have googled it, I can't really seem to figure out what to do. I'm terrible with this sort o' thing I'm afraid

[quantumdot]

It looks like it's an issue with Securom copy protection, which does tend to expect a physical disk to activate the software. My best suggestion would be to either get a copy that does not need a physical disk, or find a patch from Bethesda (or somewhere else....) that removes the copy protection for digital play.