Yo, just purchased the Settlers: Rise of an Empire game. From the local Book-fair. It says I need to insert the original disk for the game to launch. Suggestions or fixes?
My specs are well over the needed ones, but I'm running Vista. >>

This is caused by a conflict between the Tages copy protection and the firmware on your DVD drive, or any disc copying/imaging software you may have installed.

The easy way to fix this, is to manually download and install Patch 1.71 which will remove the copy protection and allow playing without the disc.

If you have the Gold edition, you may get a message that the version you have is newer than the patch, for some reason, some of the Gold editions don't recognise that the patch is indeed newer than the existing game version, but that's fixed easily too.

Go into the folder the game is installed to, look in both Program Files/Ubisoft/THE SETTLERS-Rise of an Empire/base/bin and Program Files/Ubisoft/THE SETTLERS-Rise of an Empire/extra/bin and if you see a config file called "s6patch.ini" delete it, then the patch will install ok.

Thank ye, friend. Just finished building my first city; epic.
-Thanks.

Yeah this happened to me to, but it only happened when I downloaded a update. But I didnt do this, my game will say downloading updates, so thats messed