Forum:Tricky DLC loading question

I'm just trying to play a game, not learn a whole new forum format, so I hope I get this somewhat right.

I installed Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition quite a while back, with all of the DLCs. (Took me a minute to figure out how to actually LOAD them, which I found out here... thanks.)

The first time I played, I went to go get the Alien Blaster, and when I got there it beamed me up to the Mothership. I wasn't yet ready to play the pack, I just wanted the gun. So I quit the game, started the launcher, unchecked the box for Mothership Zeta, and began playing again.

Later on when I was ready to play that DLC, I tried to load the launcher and it wouldn't work. Gave me a "no CD" error. Through much troubleshooting, I learned that my DVD-ROM had stopped working.

Considering that I don't use it for anything else, it's too expensive to bother fixing it.

So now I have a legally purchased copy of the game, 100% of the data loaded onto my computer, and I can't use that one DLC because of nothing more than Securom's disk check function. I'm now on my 8th time playing the whole game, and still haven't played Mothership Zeta. (Meaning that while most of it is getting pretty routine, there's still something NEW to me, and I'm really missing it.)

Can someone please tell me of a way to either: A. Bypass the disk checker function and load the game launcher so that I can re-check that box (kinda doubt it)? B. Load the Mothership Zeta data/content into the actual GAME without the launcher so that I can play it?

I'm missing out on some fun, and frankly I'm pretty frustrated that I've paid for something I can't use because of a stupid, poorly designed security feature that's there to make sure I've paid for it.

Please help me, somebody.

Psychepsilo 05:57, March 5, 2011 (UTC)Psychepsilo