many thanks mmalves that was the problem all along just try gow2 and it played right the problem was when i chose the iso it automatically picked the dvd file for me it came up with a message like oops you didnt choose the dvd file i will do it for you this time all i had to do was delete the dvd file and then it would burn many thx again i have got rid of quite a bit of time and dls because of this