NFSSE w/o CD?

Has anyone been able to get this game to play w/o the CD. I tried to hexedit the paths.dat file to point to all the directories I moved to the hard disk yet it failed to work. I even tried to copy the contents of the CD to my HD and installed it from there without success. I'm trying to get this game to run on my laptop w/ a 6x CD, yet the CD stops spinning when not being accessed. when NFSSE requires data from it, there is a hesitation which can be fatal when going 150+mph. Thanks

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>Has anyone been able to get this game to play w/o the CD. I tried to >hexedit the paths.dat file to point to all the directories I moved to the >hard disk yet it failed to work. I even tried to copy the contents of the >CD to my HD and installed it from there without success. I'm trying to get >this game to run on my laptop w/ a 6x CD, yet the CD stops spinning when >not being accessed. when NFSSE requires data from it, there is a hesitation >which can be fatal when going >150+mph. Thanks

well, if you have enough space.... copy the entire CD onto your HDD! and then use a program called "fakecd" to bypass the cdrom and make the computer think your cdrom is a directory somewhere on your HDD. I did it and been running extremely fast!!! but then again, I have wayyy too much space. Anyway, anyone knows how to make the game faster when playing over a SERIAL cable???? it seems like steering is too slow and messed up. later, -Danny-

How much space is that? 650 MB? 350 MB?

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>How much space is that? 650 MB? 350 MB? >>well, if you have enough space.... copy the entire CD onto your HDD! >>and then use a program called "fakecd" to bypass the cdrom and >>make the computer think your cdrom is a directory somewhere on your HDD. >>I did it and been running extremely fast!!! but then again, I have wayyy >>too much space.

about 540 Mbytes. -Danny-