i installed the game without any issues.

then when i went to play it, it said "please insert beyond good & evil CD3"

so i put in CD3, but after a few seconds it told me the same thing again.
i keep trying and it keeps repeating the same thing, even though i have put in CD3!
please help!

It could be a problem with the copy protection not recognizing your CD drive. Post your dxdiag here (Start > Run... > type "dxdiag" and enter > Save all information... > copy/paste the entire content of the txt file here).

Has anyone a solution for this? I have installed the game on a new machine (my old one on which BGE was installed is dead) and now I have this problem all the time, especially during savegames, which is infuriating!!!

Help please!

Just to me a bit more precise: the game starts fine (most of the time) and I can play maybe half an hour to 1 hour. Then at some point I get this black screen asking me for CD3. When I get this, nothing short of divine intervention (seemingly) will make the game continue. I have to nuke the process. I noticed that if I restart the game immediately afterwards, the issue happens more quickly. If I reboot, I'm back in the initial situation (1/2 hour to 1 hour worth of game).

And for what it's worth... this is a valid copy of BGE that has worked for years on another machine; as far as I can tell, the CD is physically OK (I have run a CD check) and anyway the symptoms don't seem to match a physical CD issue.

I'd really appreciate a solution for this.

One more thing: the game also crashes sometimes (just suddenly stops and returns to windows). It seems to be doing it completely at random. Grrr...

XP or Vista?

Just to point out the obvious, it's not a pirated copy right?