Just wanted to say thanks to noobwarrior7 for posting this thread and the info. I've been playing backups with the softmod for a while and just ran into my first two games that gave me the "disk read error" tonight. It was Cod:WaW and Shaun White Snowboarding. I've played through about 25-30 other backups prior to this and they all worked fine for me. These were the first two that did not work.
All I did was follow your steps and install 1-8 (I already had 6 though) and tried Cod:WaW using the .3 gamma loader and it went past the disk error screen and straight into the game. Didn't even have to edit options. Crazy but thanks a million.
EDIT.... this morning I decided to give We Ski a try again (one of the first games I backed up to test out) and it works now as well. It always gave me a disk read error before following your guide. Something in the guide you offer fixes something I never updated I guess. Thanks again for your help.
All I did was follow your steps and install 1-8 (I already had 6 though) and tried Cod:WaW using the .3 gamma loader and it went past the disk error screen and straight into the game. Didn't even have to edit options. Crazy but thanks a million.
EDIT.... this morning I decided to give We Ski a try again (one of the first games I backed up to test out) and it works now as well. It always gave me a disk read error before following your guide. Something in the guide you offer fixes something I never updated I guess. Thanks again for your help.