BV and no CD?
MutantBunny:
From what I understand, the installation of Securom by a noCD.exe is dependent on the noCd.exe that you get.The Fairlight version is said to be SecuromFREE, and proclaims itself to be so in it's ReadMe file that is included it the download.
All that 'will install on a user account/not on an admin acount' or whatever I think is BS. I am on Vista and use an Admin account and it installed the first time I installed, but not the second time. The first time, I did inadvertantly use the launcher ONCE. Then used the EA .exe and Securom 'got my PC' and I found the service and all folders installed.
The second time I installed BV, launcher was never used, went directly to the EA .exe and some of Securom was installed,keys and folders, but not the service file. The third time I installed BV, I dropped the noCD.exe in right after the install finished and I never have yet played while connected to the internet (still recovering from the last Securom bout and I'm chicken cluck cluck) and I am, so far, Securom free.
Screw their lousy patch. I'll use God's (JM's) fixes, thank you.
Has anyone read: EA is telling everyone that using the noCd.exe is illegal--which if I understand everything correctly is ILLEGAL of THEM to be telling everyone that!
morriganrant:
Eh, I installed using a torrented version, but a no cd crack was not out for BV when I first ran the game, which was the day of release for America. I had the reg keys, I had a file in my system 32 folder and I had a SecuRom folder(although it was empty). This was installed on my admin account.
Zazazu:
Quote from: MutantBunny on 2007 October 16, 21:57:20
All that 'will install on a user account/not on an admin acount' or whatever I think is BS. I am on Vista and use an Admin account and it installed the first time I installed, but not the second time. The first time, I did inadvertantly use the launcher ONCE. Then used the EA .exe and Securom 'got my PC' and I found the service and all folders installed.
If you used the launcher, you used the original .exe as well. All the launcher does is bring up a splash screen with the ads pulled from the official site, and the PLAY button. Pressing the PLAY button runs script to load the original .exe. Now, theoretically, if you apply the no-CD crack beforehand and then use the launcher, SecuROM won't install because it's not present on the Fairlight crack. But why waste 10 seconds looking at that stupid adware?
jsalemi:
Quote from: MutantBunny on 2007 October 16, 21:57:20
All that 'will install on a user account/not on an admin acount' or whatever I think is BS. I am on Vista and use an Admin account and it installed the first time I installed, but not the second time. The first time, I did inadvertantly use the launcher ONCE. Then used the EA .exe and Securom 'got my PC' and I found the service and all folders installed.
The second time I installed BV, launcher was never used, went directly to the EA .exe and some of Securom was installed,keys and folders, but not the service file.
Well, it may be a Vista difference then (I've read messages from folks saying it behaves differently under Vista) -- I have Win XP, and never saw anything other than the registry keys, and I did start it with the launcher the first time, and didn't have a no-cd.exe yet.
squish:
Quote from: Argon on 2007 October 16, 15:49:21
I'm wondering if it is actually the Sims2EP6.exe that installs Securom. I've noticed a mysterious command window that shows up after you enter your serial number when you are installing the game that never showed up for previous expansions. From what I know about Securom 7, a decryption key needs to be installed on the computer before the game can load. It may not install the whole thing, but something is definitely being added.
I noticed that command window too. I'd reinstalled all my games and Fashion Stuff had the command window as well; none of the others did.
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