This is a step-by-step guide to unpacking, installing and mounting a cracked game CD/DVD “image” from a split-volume archive that you have downloaded from Rapidshare or a similar source. The example game will be Crysis (released by Razor1911) which has a typical install and crack profile to many other game releases.

You will need WinRAR Archiver and Daemon Tools installed to install most games. I prefer Daemon Tools because it's popular and always evolving. It also supports 64bit Vista.

1. Before we do anything with the game files we need to make sure our system will show all file extensions. All windows operating systems do not show file extensions by default, unless you change these settings manually. Go to > Control Panel > Folder Options. And make sure these options are the same as in the following image.

2. Now let’s get on with unpacking those game files we downloaded. Open up the file directory to your downloaded game files. You probably have a bunch of files with the .rar file extension (depends who uploaded it) "Right-click" any file and select “Extract to …”

3. Now in this case with Crysis, after you extracted the files to a folder , what you find in that folder is another 65 files with different file extensions e.g .001 to .065. WinRar will open most file archive extensions automatically but sometimes it needs to be finessed into opening others. This is the case with the Razor1911 files for Crysis (and for many other games). The game file extensions are .001 to .065 Technically that’s 65 different file extensions. We are only interested in one…it could be any one… but we will use .001…. “Right-Click” the .001 file and select “Open”