How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
J. M. Pescado:
See, Venusy? Your tactic doesn't work. Now we can't even blame people for not reading it.
Zazazu:
Can we blame them for not being pervy enough? I'm disappointed in you, KiganMatsuei.
SarahKjrsten:
I'm not 100% sure that this is a SecuROM issue, but I'm fairly certain it is.
As you can see by my above post, I managed to get rid of it and use a no-cd crack for BV to work. And BV worked perfectly until today. I purchased and installed Castaway on Tuesday, and today for the first time since installing Castaway, I went to play the Sims--and the game won't load. I'm starting it from the no-cd short cut, and it simply won't start. The really odd thing about it though, is that if I look at my task manager, it shows the game as running.
What can I do to fix what I've broken?
kutto:
Delete groups.cache?
PaganKitten:
I just got BV today. I went through my Downloads folder and removed all my hacks, and stupidly started installing BEFORE I came here. While waiting for the install, I started downloading all the BV-compatible versions of the hacks I use, and stumbled across an article with numerous comments complaining about SecuROM. So I Googled 'SecuROM "ea games" ' and found a link to this thread (as well as a couple to now-locked BBS threads that complained of the usual Suck-u-ROM ills).
By the time I had found out about all the potential problems Suck-u-ROM can cause, I'd already run BV (without the no-CD patch) to see if it would work on my somewhat outdated PC (which is a different on than the one I use to access the intarwebs). After reading this thread (and the ones on the BBS), I exited the game, ran Norton AV (no problems there), ran AdAware and Spybot S&D (no problems there), then started up BV again. It seems to be running fine, except that it paused for less than a second, about every five to ten seconds, during the loading screens. But that could just be because I'm running Sims 2 on a 2 1/2 year old eMachine with a 3 year old NVidia card.
Apparently, I'm one of those lucky people whose system didn't get FUBARed in some way by Suck-u-ROM. Does this mean I won't get rid of it?
Hell, no. The fact that it has been installed on my PC without my permission pisses me off. The fact that Sony has designed it to hide itself and make it difficult to remove makes it even MORE desirable for me to remove it. I resent Sony and EAxis putting that kind of thing on my PC without even giving me the chance to refuse it. Sure, I could have not installed BV in the first place, but I didn't know about this embedded software until it was too late. Now, it's going to go the same way as any other malware that attempts to insinuate itself onto my computer.
And it's going to make me think twice about buying anything else from EA Games.
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