Oops I Broke It!
J. M. Pescado:
Actually, it's an issue of new systems being bitchy and refusing to run if it so much as sees Daemon. Get a hider program, like YASU, and you're good to go again.
B:
I was under the impression EA still uses safedisc 1 which cannot blacklist any DT released since 3.47.
Ennarys:
Quote from: B on 2007 July 19, 13:25:45
Quote from: Ennarys on 2007 July 19, 06:55:58
More great advice, thanks. Now my CD drive will no longer recognize that my seasons CD is in the drive when I try to load it up :-\
I'm full of stupid problems; I'd make a lousy pirate. AAAR---*chokes on spit*
Any ideas for my new problem?
I don't know if this is still an issue, but if it is you may need to remove the Daemon virtual drive and then reinstate it with a different drive letter. Also, Nero has been known to occasionally bork the cd drive functionality. The usual fix for this is to go into device manager (hit winkey+R and enter "devmgmt.msc" without quotes) and remove the drive. It will reinstall when you reboot and tends to work without issues after that.
After your post I checked my disc drive just in case and it was borked. :o
Then I followed your instructions and now it works fine. ;D
Thank you again!
KatEnigma:
Quote from: B on 2007 July 19, 14:27:14
I was under the impression EA still uses safedisc 1 which cannot blacklist any DT released since 3.47.
As of Seasons, they were still using safedisc, but they changed versions with Seasons- as was obvious by the game refusing to actually start on the first attempt - it hangs during the loading, the usual safedisc borkedness. I get so tired of having to bring up task manager to end the program and try again (and there's no hacked exe for the patch(es) )
We also need to be prepared for BV- they switched to Securom for PetStories, which is breaking the game even more for people who've bought it legally. I imagine that BV will use it too.
Madame Mim:
I refused to install the patches and kept using the MATY fixes. Then (when I installed H&M stuff) it forced me into the patches. I was livid. So I tried replacing the patched exe with my original no cd exe and it ran. I don't know how much of the patch this disables (or not) but you can still use the no cd on a patched game.
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