Is it bit torrent?
ritaxis:
My game did that thing where it randomly kills its own .exe file. This is not my problem, thouugh. I reinstalled, ran the game twice (once without custom content and once with the custom content back in), happy. The third time I tried I could nto get it to load. This is what happens: After I hit play, the hard drive reads for a bit, then settles downwith only the same kind of background behavior it always has. Task Manager never shows any Sims 2 processes during this time (in the past when I had a game that crashed during loading there was usually a Sims2 process going on for a while at least). Searching reveals the existence of the Sims2EP9.exe file right where it's supposed to be, and also a Sims2EP9.exe prefetch file which I gather is supposed to be there.
I did a search-and-destroy operation for securom using the directions found here but there was nothing to destroy (how is that? I thought there was securom on all of the EP9 disks. Could it have been thwarted by the extra fancy trusted platform module my compuiter guy put in? or is securom now sneakier and hiding out as something else?). The computer is two months old and built to SIms2 specs. I don't know how to get an error log when nothing happens at all.
I thought it might be a hardware problem so I first checked all the connections and also tried other things in the drive, all of which loaded and played fine. I tried taking out recently added custom content, and then all custom content, and it still happens like that. I've run several scans and my computer appears to be clean.
The only unusual thing on my computer is bit torrent, and it isn't always doing anything because the only thing I seed is Krtek videos (it's the only thing I've downloaded from bit torrent too, and it was because until I go to Czech Republic myself I can't see them otherwise). But could the presence of sometimes-active torrent be alarming the Sims security stuff, making it think I'm participating in warez behavior,and causing it to refuse to play?
J. M. Pescado:
No. ButtTorrent cannot do this to your exe file. If game is stalling without loading, you are probably having problems with SecuROM, and need to follow the de-SecuROM instructions.
Milhouse Trixibelle Saltfucker III:
It claims to have done that already and found nothing. I suspect it merely failed, since it also claims to have bought and used the EAxian disc as-is. It also claims to have had some spyware installed by some "compuiter guy", whatever a compuiter is. I, naturally, suggest reformatting.
ritaxis:
Reading comprehension. I had no spyware installed.
I followed the directions really carefully, and found nothing, nothing, in any of the places where securom is supposed to be. I'm not an idiot: I can read. The instructions are lengthy, but clear, and I found nothing. I ran each step, one after the other, in order. I'll do more hunting if anybody knows any more places to look.
I currently think it was something in the saved games, because when I pulled out the whole sims2 folder and reinstalled, it loaded. I think I have to start over from scratch. Again. I'd love to get to a second generation someday.
eta: I don't mind a neutral pronoun, but I also don't mind people knowing I am of the XY persuasion. So you can use "she" if you like it better than "it." I only use the username I do for sentimental reasons.
Milhouse Trixibelle Saltfucker III:
Quote from: ritaxis on 2009 January 04, 01:12:00
Could it have been thwarted by the extra fancy trusted platform module my compuiter guy put in?
This sounds like spyware to me.
If you have been using noncracked EPs, then you have Securom. Look harder.
Also, you are an it until I decide to call you she. Or, if I feel like it, a Clitaxis.
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