question about games

[Ser Superior001]

hi, i need to know something, its about phisical and digital game copies, i know that for example an steam game can have corrupted files so you can put "verify files" option on steam library, but are only the digital games have this issues?, or phisical too?, if you can veriry files and fix the game, can the physical copy be repaired to?, for example i have doom 3 2004 in physical that i bought back in 2006, can my game have corrupted files?, and if so can i fix them like steam does???, did you get what im trying to say? i need explanation

[OhioYJ]

Nope, if you disc is damaged, there really isn't anything you can do to replace that data. So try to take good care of your physical media. The good news is I have games much older than Doom3, that still play fine.

 

Disc polishing / resurfacing is a thing. Done right it does work, but it can't be done indefinitely. You are taking material away. However it's like polishing a car, done wrong you can do more harm than good.

[demonix00]

The only way physical media can have corrupted files is if the data used with the master at the pressing plant was corrupted (if it was there would have been a major storm and the need to issue replacement discs) or the surface of the disc is damaged or scratched.

 

The only way to stop the latter from causing issues is to not treat the discs like garbage and keep them in their original case.

[Ser Superior001]

45 minutes ago, OhioYJ said:

Nope, if you disc is damaged, there really isn't anything you can do to replace that data. So try to take good care of your physical media. The good news is I have games much older than Doom3, that still play fine.

 

Disc polishing / resurfacing is a thing. Done right it does work, but it can't be done indefinitely. You are taking material away. However it's like polishing a car, done wrong you can do more harm than good.

omg, i think you guys didnt got what i tried to say, when i say physical games i dont mean the discs, i mean the game already installed in the hard drives (from dvds obviously), lol not the discs

[OhioYJ]

24 minutes ago, xXAXONXx said:

omg, i think you guys didnt got what i tried to say, when i say physical games i dont mean the discs, i mean the game already installed in the hard drives (from dvds obviously), lol not the discs

Reinstall the game? Some games have a repair option built into the installer. 

[Ser Superior001]

1 minute ago, OhioYJ said:

Reinstall the game? Some games have a repair option built into the installer. 

so the games installed from a physical copy can get/be corrupted like digital ones?

[Avocado Diaboli]

5 hours ago, xXAXONXx said:

so the games installed from a physical copy can get/be corrupted like digital ones?

Any file can get corrupted for one reason or another. Files are files, there's no magic barrier that makes ones installed from physical media different to ones installed from a server over the internet.

[Ser Superior001]

15 hours ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

Any file can get corrupted for one reason or another. Files are files, there's no magic barrier that makes ones installed from physical media different to ones installed from a server over the internet.

wow, so all games files can get corrupted?, omg rdr2 must be digital cause if you get physical you must to reinstall the game to fix corrupt files cause that makes the game slow! nooo

[LogicalDrm]

On 12/16/2022 at 12:03 AM, xXAXONXx said:

wow, so all games files can get corrupted?, omg rdr2 must be digital cause if you get physical you must to reinstall the game to fix corrupt files cause that makes the game slow! nooo

Its bit more complicated than that. All digital files can get corrupted and because of variety of reasons. Something becoming slow is most likely not corrupted file. Most often corrupted files are not loading at all or crashing. Something being just slow feels more like hardware or OS issue to me.

 

Most games released after 2010 are all digital. Discs are used as alternative way of delivering and installing. You can probably do repairs within your chosen paltform directly, without having to insert disc at all. RDR2 for example, you have probably downloaded most of the files for that game anyway.