How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
Deviancy:
Going the the booty route doesn't necessarily mean you'll be avoiding securom. A few of the scenes are pirating the games but using image files instead of nocd cracks to allow the player to just mount the image with daemon, use yasu to hide daemon from securom and then play the game. But securom is still active at that point. A few of the other scenes are still releasing games with nocd cracks, however they're not updating those nocd cracks everytime there's a patch. I mean some games have 3-4 patches before everything is taken care of, can't expect the scenes to keep up with that. But it depends on the popularity of the game, not how many are playing but who. The sims seems to be loved by many but hated by those who are more into the pirating thing. Every time a sims game is pirated a ton of guys bitch about how the game is for women, or they'll download it and swear to everyone they're downloading it for their girlfriend. Which is fitting since in theory, their hand is their girlfriend and it also controls the mouse so it isn't an all out lie.
I'm avoiding Bioshock regardless of the fact there are two pirated versions. One goes the image route the other is a nocd crack. The problem of course is that bioshock will without a doubt be patched a few times to resolve some of the issues, that means if I use the nocd crack, I'll have to replace it with the original exe to patch it.. and then wait on a new nocd crack if it ever gets released. It's just to much of a headache.
If you're using Xp.. what you can do is create a new user account.. install the sims on that account. Set it to where it isn't accessible to other users. That way when you go into your other user account, securom shouldn't be present..
I think that would work.. I mean in theory it'll still be on the hard drive.. but if I remember right.. securom installs in c:\documents and settings\username\blah blah.. If it does that, that would mean the other user account wouldn't have to worry about it..
veilchen:
I believe I asked that before, but I don't think I got any kind of answer.
If you install the game on a peripheral hard drive (one you plug in via usb port) will SecuRom still infest your main drive? Your partition advise reminded me of that. If that's possible, then installing on a plug-in drive should do the same. Yes? No? Maybe? Do I not know what I'm talking about? I'm not at all tech savvy, and I've learned a lot the last couple of days. So please enlighten me.
kutto:
I actually did that. I installed it on my peripheral hard drive. However, I installed it while running my main hard drive; that is, the peripheral hard drive was connected, and I instructed the installer to put it on there. SecuRom still managed it's way into my registry.
veilchen:
Bleh, there goes that easy solution. But just like some other easy outs, it sounded too good to be true anyway.
Thanks Kutto.
lovesimsKL:
I have been waiting to see if anyone asked this and I have read the whole thread but I can't find the answer.
I stupidly downloaded H&M and BV from EA Link. Do I need to worry about SecuROM with H&M or can I deal with it by removing it and getting the nocd crack for BV? Secondly since I do not have a "cd" do I still use the nocd crack for BV?
I'm sorry if these are n00b questions :-\.
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