Help, my game asploded!
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: AmberDiceless on 2007 April 21, 01:15:33
...is GameJackal, which costs ten bucks to register...
This seems very purpose-defeating.
Ambular:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 April 21, 03:37:17
Quote from: AmberDiceless on 2007 April 21, 01:15:33
...is GameJackal, which costs ten bucks to register...
This seems very purpose-defeating.
Well, not if your purpose is to preserve your original disks so they don't wear out or explode and threaten your personal safety. :p
J. M. Pescado:
Registering software is inherently contrary to your personal safety. Not to mention you're peddling without paying the advertising fee.
KatEnigma:
I used Game Drive for awhile, but it takes longer to prepare the image than it does to download the cracked versions. ::) Why pay $10 to do all the work, when someone else does it for free?
syberspunk:
Quote from: MoonDragoness on 2007 April 20, 21:20:28
I don't get why a couple of you seem so very frightened of a cracked exe, that you're so willing to run a cracked .iso... which is just as capable of containing viruses!
But an image isn't really "cracked" is it. I mean, I could be wrong, but I imagine that software that backs up cds such as alcohol doesn't exactly "crack" or "hack" the game, as opposed to a cracked .exe which probably actually involves some personal tweaking. *shrugs*
I find using an image far less likely to involve viruses since any body can just do it using widely available software that I'm just reluctant to fork the cash over for. :P
Quote from: MoonDragoness on 2007 April 20, 21:20:28
Isn't that what virus scanners are for? ???
Virus/trojan scanners aren't infallible. Don't some of them have to be "trained" on new ones anyway?
Quote from: MoonDragoness on 2007 April 20, 21:20:28
If I'd bought my computer pre-loaded with windows and didn't have a key, or I had a cracked key, they wouldn't have given me that customer service code and I would be SOL. Probably would have had to wipe the thing, reformat and reinstall.
Uhh... if you bought a machine from a legitimate source with pre-loaded windows, you should be given a product key regardless, even if in most cases you are given recovery cds branded by the vendor that built your machine. They are legally required to place that product key sticker on the machine itself.
Quote from: MoonDragoness on 2007 April 20, 21:20:28
Regarding the locked-out build and buy modes: That seems to only happen when you install the game from the commonly available, poorly done cracks. If you're using an install from real disks and just bypassing the cd on startup, whichever method you like should be fine.
This seems to happen mostly with cracked .exes whereas, if you just have an image, you shouldn't have to worry about it. Because basically an image should just be an exact copy of the cd itself without any additional crap (afaik).
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 April 20, 22:04:23
[quote author=syberspunk link=topic=8139.msg225267#msg225267 date=1177102
Why such an old version? Daemontools is up to 4.09, which was recently released and works fine. I've been using the 4.x versions since they were released with no problems at all.
On my brand new shiney machine, I am using v4.08 without any problems (so far... *knocks on wood* :P). On my older machine, when I first started using Daemontools, I think it was one of the older versions. I might have transposed the numbers... it might have been 4.03 or something like that... but I am fairly certain that when I moved up to 4.06 I started having major problems with my computer. The OS would constantly freeze up and after multiple re-installs, I appeared to narrow it down to daemon tools. That is to say, when I did yet another rebuild and didn't install daemontools at all, the computer worked fine. The only difference I could think of, before I was having problems, was the fact that I had upgraded daemontools. The version prior to that didn't seem to give me any problems. I posted all about this, and I vaguely recall something being mentioned about one of the other daemontools related modules or something being a problem. I tried uninstalling that portion alone, but it still didn't help. So I just stopped using it on my older machine. My sister's compy didn't seem to have a problem, so I just chalked it up to the fact that her machine was newer. I think her OS build already had SP2 included whereas my old machine pre-dated SP2. And even though I tried installing daemon tools after updating to SP2, I would still have lock up issues. :-\
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