How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
Ambular:
Quote from: FourCats on 2007 October 10, 21:26:04
Well for me it wasn't a problem.
I downloaded and installed the patch, which over wrote my no-cd hack
so I reapplied the no-cd patch
And I'm playing the game as I type.
Are you seeing any performance improvements? I'd think that overwriting the new .exe would bollux up at least some of the fixes in the Maxis patch, though if some of the changes were to objects.package or other files then you might still get some benefit with an "unholy hybrid" configuration.
Deviancy:
Bad advice..
If you use a patch that patches the exe file and then overwrite that exe file with a nocd crack that was made based on an earlier exe build, you're most likely going to limit some of the fixes the patch brought to the table. On top of that, some hacks have to be re-done when a patch is released. Those hacks may have an issue since the nocd crack will show that the game is an earlier build and not the newer build. And there is a possiblity no new nocd crack will be made. I'm pretty sure they never made a new one when Seasons was patched, they just made an image file you can use daemon and yasu with.
Ubisoft, Eidos, EA Games, Konami, and Rockstar are just a few of the publishers who use securom and who will be using the newer version. Ubi is going to be releasing some pretty fun games in the next few months. So if you're a gamer, I'd just get used to securom because even you get a nocd crack, chances are they'll patch the game and you'll need the patch. And since there's never a guarantee of a new nocd crack being made for a patched exe, you'd be stuck using the image file or the cd and need securom.
Securom is about as bright as the drm shit sony made for wma files. But the publishers are so paranoid about piracy that they're just ignoring the fact that software like securom and starforce are crap. Starforce was by far worse than securom but Ubi and a few others finally dropped it, thankfully.
veilchen:
I'm not a rigid person, never was, but I do have principles. I will not allow anyone to install something on my computer that has the potential power to override my set-ups/instructions/whathaveyou. I rather go without those fun games than do that. I go back to console before I do that, or re-discover older, also fun games that don't mess with my computer and my sole authority over it.
Maybe, if enough people get pissed off enough, this will open the door for smaller companies that have until now never had a chance. If they are smart, they'll use protection ware that is not malicious, a rootkit, or spyware. I for one would gladly switch to them.
I will not get used to it, not now, not ever. That's what they're banking on, but I'm not biting. I might be just one person, but I will not go against my firm beliefs or my principles - ever. No game ever invented will be able to do that.
Ahem... Battleship anyone? I'll supply paper and pencil.
FourCats:
Quote from: AmberDiceless on 2007 October 10, 21:55:53
Quote from: FourCats on 2007 October 10, 21:26:04
Well for me it wasn't a problem.
I downloaded and installed the patch, which over wrote my no-cd hack
so I reapplied the no-cd patch
And I'm playing the game as I type.
Are you seeing any performance improvements? I'd think that overwriting the new .exe would bollux up at least some of the fixes in the Maxis patch, though if some of the changes were to objects.package or other files then you might still get some benefit with an "unholy hybrid" configuration.
not yet.
prattle:
Quote from: Deviancy on 2007 October 10, 23:33:01
Bad advice..
If you use a patch that patches the exe file and then overwrite that exe file with a nocd crack that was made based on an earlier exe build, you're most likely going to limit some of the fixes the patch brought to the table. On top of that, some hacks have to be re-done when a patch is released. Those hacks may have an issue since the nocd crack will show that the game is an earlier build and not the newer build. And there is a possiblity no new nocd crack will be made. I'm pretty sure they never made a new one when Seasons was patched, they just made an image file you can use daemon and yasu with.
Ubisoft, Eidos, EA Games, Konami, and Rockstar are just a few of the publishers who use securom and who will be using the newer version. Ubi is going to be releasing some pretty fun games in the next few months. So if you're a gamer, I'd just get used to securom because even you get a nocd crack, chances are they'll patch the game and you'll need the patch. And since there's never a guarantee of a new nocd crack being made for a patched exe, you'd be stuck using the image file or the cd and need securom.
Securom is about as bright as the drm shit sony made for wma files. But the publishers are so paranoid about piracy that they're just ignoring the fact that software like securom and starforce are crap. Starforce was by far worse than securom but Ubi and a few others finally dropped it, thankfully.
And there's a better alternative? I'm not the kind of person who would normally get into warez at all, but right now it looks like the better alternative to invasive copy protection is either pirating games or buying a console and swearing off PC gaming. Is either good for EA or the gaming industry as a whole?
I'm reluctant to remove SecuROM because I'm worried about Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword not working (thank you, 2K Games!) but then again, Bioshock broke people's Beyond The Sword game with incompatibility between games running different versions of SecuROM 7. I realize it's probably a corporate decision by EA to include SecuROM 7 on all their games and Sims players are just getting caught in it, but what else can we do?
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