Find the official 1.04 executable . Konami themselves removed the disc check. It is lightweight, safe, and respected by all major modding communities.
Many players find that the most reliable solution is to use community-developed patches. These mods often include "No-CD" executables that remove the requirement for a physical disc check entirely, allowing the game to run on modern hardware without the "No CD/DVD-ROM found" prompt. Popular options like the QPES or PesJP patches often include these stability fixes as standard. Pes-2013-No-Cd-Dvdrom-Drive-Found
can emulate a physical SCSI/IDE drive, which sometimes bypasses detection issues. 4. Update the Game (Patches) Find the official 1