GK2 Illegal game copy warning

[Lebostein]

I have installed Gabriel Knight 2 with my original german 6 CD version with an installer from the Sierra-Help-Page:
http://www.sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updat ... s.html#GK2

Why I get this warning? All is original.

[Raziel]

I suspect the installer from sierrahelp does something to the files.

Try again with the original installer

[Praetorian]

I have installed Gabriel Knight 2 with my original german 6 CD version with an installer from the Sierra-Help-Page:
http://www.sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updat ... s.html#GK2

Why I get this warning? All is original.

I think that at least some of installers on SHP are unofficial / third party, so that could be a side-effect of an unofficial installer tampering with the files' integrity -- not for malicious purpose, most likely to resolve some compatibility issue.

I am not sure this is the reason, but it is a strong possibility.

However, ScummVM in most cases (and in GK2) just needs files copied from the CDs to a game folder on your HDD (or other storage device) using a normal Files Explorer (or Explorer-like) tool.

All SCI32 (SCI2/3) games
Copy all files from each disk or CD to the game directory. Some games need additional work:
Games with multiple CDs

• Directories that exist on multiple discs (e.g. ROBOT and VMD directories) must be merged together, not replaced.
• Rename the RESOURCE.SFX from each CD to RESSFX.00<cdnumber>,
  and the RESOURCE.AUD from each CD to RESAUD.00<cdnumber>,
  to match the corresponding RESSCI.00<cdnumber> file that exists on each CD.
• It should be safe to replace any other files from later CDs that were copied already from earlier CDs (...)

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Data ... 3.29_games

[Lebostein]

It seems the installer I use from the site above merges all ressources from the single CDs (RESSCI.001, RESSCI.002 ..) to huge single ressource files. I think that could trigger the warn. But it seems the GOG files are also build with this third party installer and there is no warning... I will try the manual copy thing. Thanks