how do i play a video game without a disk drive

Hi James

If you have the discs for those games, but no drive to insert those discs into, you need to go to another PC and create disk images (ISO files) of those disks

Then in Windows 10, you can double click an ISO file and Windows will create a virtual drive, with that disk mounted on it, which fools the game into thinking the disk is indeed in your PC

You can use free software like IMG Burn to create the Disk Images from those disks . . .

Hi James

Greetings! I am Vijay, an Independent Advisor. I am here to work with you on this problem.

Please confirm that by no Disk Drive you meant CD/DVD drive.

Hey there, James

Welcome to the Microsoft Community forums

When I purchase games, I use Steam. You can download games from Steam here:

https://store.steampowered.com/

You can also use the built in Microsoft store app on Windows 10, which do have games that are for Xbox and Windows listed under the game section. To get to store, please press Start > Store

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Legal: Just to let you know Steam is not apart of Microsoft. However it is an official site for PC Games. They have their own ToU and CoC which you will need to agree by. Anything you download on the site is at your own risk - however, it is safe (They don't have PuP and they do check the games developed and published)

• If your machine does not have a DVD\CD player and there is no option to install one you have to buy all games on line.

(you can buy an external DVD\CD player, but they are relatively expensive).

• If your machine has DVD\CD player you can use that to install games you buy from a game shop, and you can buy second hand games,

but only older games will activate

From around 2010 onward it can be difficult to find a game that allows for more than one activation. Greedy publishers have killed

off the second hand PC game market. I still pick up old disc based games from the local thrift shops now and then though.

The Big Daddy of game download sites is....

Steam://store.steampowered.com/

There are game developer/publisher sites as well....

Epic Games | Store

UbiSoft//uplay.ubisoft.com/

EA - Origin://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/

Other popular game retailers....

The Humble Store: Great games. Fantastic prices. Support charity.

Good Old Games//www.gog.com/

Fanatical | Buy PC Games, Steam Keys, Bundles (formerly Bundle Stars)

• Using all of the sites above helps find games on 'sale', which they are frequently. These are the sites I use, but there are

a few others.

• Oh ! I almost forgot. MS sell games at their Microsoft Store too. The client software is pretty buggy, but

there are a few games that can only be bought from the MS store.

• There are also some games that are exclusive to Playstation or XBOX that are not available for PC.

yes dvd/cd drive