Forgive me if this is completely naive, but I'm wondering if it's possible to buy MS points online if all I readily have available is an ATM card. (Somewhat new to the world of bank cards and banking in general so again, sorry if this is an incredibly obvious question.)

Dont play CoD 4?

Grif-yes

Is the disk in good condition?

Vari3ty

Yep, it's in great shape. Even took it in for a buff just in case. Once again, I'm not getting a disc read error like I would if the disc were just dirty or something, it just doesn't know that there's a game in the tray.

thats what happens if you play a game to much. your going to have to just leave it be for about a week or 3 days and then try it again. also, turn your 360 off and crank up the AC in your house. i know it sounds wierd, but it helps. fixed my Oblivion disc.

Aslyum_Beast

Yeah... I've "let it be" for over a month now, and it's still a no-go. And while I can understand cooling the system a little if it was an all-encompasing problem, this is just for a single game disc. And I somehow doubt the authenticity of allowing a disc time to "recharge" so to speak, but if it worked for Oblivion who knows, right? That's a very interesting fix and I imagine several other unforseen factors were involved.

Now before you ask: NO, it isn't my laser or disc tray or anything that's broken. My 360 plays every other game I have without a hitch, they all run perfectly. It's only COD4 that seems to not work. It played fine when I first got it, but then one day it refused to operate. It's not even a matter of a "disc read error", as no such notice appears. The box simply won't recognize that the game is in the tray. I put it in, it whirs for a second, and then the "open tray" option appears again, as if there's nothing in the console. I've tried restarting, clearing the cache, and taking the disc in for a buff, even though it was already in great condition. This is a very strange problem for which I've been completely unable to find a solution, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

A fixed .exe file, eh? Alright, I'll do a bit of searching.

And yeah, it does sound ridiculous that a PC can be "too good" to run something, but then it also makes sense: as time goes on, updated drivers will not have the same compatibility features as old ones. Ergo, some games are going to get left behind, like poor old KoToR here. It's sad, but logical.

I'll probably end up doing what you did: taking it off my vista laptop and putting it on the family XP desktop. It might work better there, but I'll probably have to endure the wrath of my folks for it. Imagine playing an RPG like that on your family's all purpose computer:

"Son, I've gotta finish our taxes!"

"Hold on! I just need one more level in dark side then I can shoot lightning!"

Yeah, might get messy. But I'll see how it all pans out.

And whoever asked what graphics card I have: I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600. So it's not a problem with the 8800 series, clearly.

Yeah, yeah, it's old, I know. But I just picked the thing up and I'm encountering some problems. First off, whenever I try to play Republic Commando, it asks me to insert the original game disc... in other words, the disk which is already in the drive. I click "OK" and nothing happens. I try to put in the second disk, just for kicks, and still nothing happens. So in other words, it thinks that I don't have the right disc. The odd thing is, I played the game once before, it just decided to give me this error recently.

Second: I can't get KoToR to run, either. I continually get an error message that claims that a "problem" caused the program to stop working correctly and then immediately shuts it down. Needless, to say, I'm starting to get annoyed.

As for my system: I'm running Windows Vista 32-bit (Don't give me that crap about how they don't work on Vista, I've seen them played on this operating system before). It's a fairly new computer so all my hardware is up to date and runs every every other game I've tried (including the other games in the Best of PC set). I've already tried running these programs in Compatibilty mode, and as administrators, so I've already covered that base. Any other possible solutions would be greatly appreciated.