Is it better to use a virtual CD ROM drive or a CD free patch to play games?

They all run on hard drives, and the wear and tear on the machine is about the same. However, it is definitely more convenient to have a CD-free patch than to use a virtual optical drive.

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Of course there is a CD-free patch pull

Warcraft needs this patch because there is no Warcraft 3 machine can not play Ice Peak Throne Generally** Ice Peak Throne comes with CD-free patches so that you can play But some can only use virtual CD drives Some only use CD patches For example, NBA2006 is the need for virtual CD drives, "generally to use selectively", depending on what game you use

Each has its own benefits, but overall it's better to be CD-free.

If the effect is the same, of course, it's good to be cd-free patches, after all, it can save a lot of hard disk space, but I often encounter this kind of CD-free version of the problem of this kind of problem, it's really no way.

I think it's better to use a virtual optical drive, free of CD patches, sometimes it will be inexplicable.

I've encountered program problems, so I'll use a virtual optical drive in the future.

If you don't want to use a CD, you can use a virtual CD-ROM drive to simulate.

If you want to use a virtual CD-ROM drive for a single-player game, how can there be any CD-free patches?

Of course, it's good to be CD-free, but the virtual optical drive has to be loaded every time you use it, which is troublesome, and sometimes there will be stuck problems, which is not very good.

There is a free CD, who still uses a virtual CD-ROM drive, the only advantage of a virtual CD-ROM drive is that it is a little more convenient when reloading the game, and you don't have to download it from the Internet.

The virtual drive is a virtual drive that is created through special software (daemontools) [I can see it on my computer].

The system does not know that the drive is fake (virtual), and the system uses it as if it were a real drive, but the disc must be included in the real drive to use it. Then there can't be a disc in the virtual drive, hehe, the disc in the virtual disc drive is what people often call an image file (the extension is generally iso, there is also bin or img, etc.). To use it, you must use the virtual optical drive software (daemontools) to load the image file (just like you would put a disc into a real optical drive).

So, CD-free is that said.

Instead of discs, use mirrors!!

Load the image file into the virtual drive, and the system will think that you have put the disc into the real optical drive!!

As a result, you don't need to buy a CD, as long as you have an image file in your hand (CD-free patch), you can play the game!!

The virtual optical drive is used to read the image file with the ISO suffix, that is, the function of a virtual optical drive, and the ISO file is equivalent to a disc.