Grr... every time I go to play this game I end up doing something else! This thread caught my eye last night, & as my grand-daughter has just figured out how to walk (already ruined 1 disc that was in my pc), so I decided to give this a go. What a major pain in the backside it was to get it working, 7 hours it took me!!!
So, without reading too much, I downloaded Daemon tools lite, installed, made an image of my F1 2010 disc, mounted it... & hey presto it wouldnt work from a back up copy of the game
So I did some reading, lots of it, & came to the conclusion that lots of peeps were having problems with a certain part of Daemon tools, & also the guy who wrote YASU (for cloaking the virtual drive) was no longer doing it, & had indeed moved over to the Alcohol peeps. From what I can tell, the reason it wouldnt work was the way I made the image, & also the fact that I wasnt cloaking the virtual drive.
I went onto the Alcohol 120% forum, & lots more reading, came to the conclusion that this would be a better version to do the same thing, with a lot more options for making your image in the 1st place (so that the game doesnt think it's a back up), & eventually downloaded & installed Alcohol 52% (the free version). There are 2 versions of Alcohol 52%, 1 is free, 1 is a trial & costs $27.
Alcohol 52% only lets you make a cd/dvd image & mount it on a virtual drive.
Alcohol 120% does the same as above, but also lets you burn the images to disc, & costs money.
Alcohol 52% Free -- make cd/dvd image & 6 virtual drives (free)
Alcohol 52% ------ make cd/dvd image & 31 virtual drives (costs money)
Alcohol 120% ----- make cd/dvd image & 31 virtual drives & cd/dvd burning (costs more money)
All 3 come with A.C.I.D. which is used for cloaking the virtual drive.
You will also need something called
SPTD (SCSI Pass Through Direct) which you only find out about if you have problems (they dont tell you up front). If you havent got it, when you try to use Alcohol 52%/120% you get the message
Loading Alcohol Device Drivers Failed Emulation Options and native driver interface of Alcohol 120% will not be available.