How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
zepherine:
Hello, All. I have been following this thread with great interest for some time now, but I have yet to read of one other person who has experienced the SecurRom related problem which is causing me grief.
I have purchased "Bon Voyage," FreeTime," and "Apartment Life," but cannot install any of them. SecuRom is ALL that installs before I receive the ubiquitous "Autorun has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience" message
Needless to say, EA has been no help whatsoever about this, and in fact they have apparenely failed even to read my Emails, judging from the woefully inapplicable responses they have returned to me.
Do any of you know what causes this? Have you heard of others having this problem? And is there a workaround?
dragoness:
Workaround:
Uninstall SecuROM, if it's on your system, using the directions here.
Download a copy from one of the many filesharing sites. It isn't even illegal, since you already have a paid-for copy.
Use the downloaded copy to install.
Get a No-CD crack so you don't need to use the CD when you run (to avoid SecuROM).
Should work!
Rainne:
OK, question.
I have followed these instructions and now Free Time is running properly with a no-cd crack and i haz no SUCKurom. My question is this:
I want to install K&B, IKEA, AL and M&G. When I install the first SP, do I still run the game using the FT crack, or do I need to get a new crack for K&B? Then, IF it works (it didn't yesterday), when I go to install IKEA, do I need a new crack for IKEA, or do I still use the FT crack?
I know when I install AL I will definitely need a new crack for that... but what about M&G? Will I still use the AL crack, or will I need an M&G crack? I want to try installing each pack one at the time to see if they work, since last night I installed them all together and got nothing. Any ideas?
jolrei:
Quote from: Rainne on 2008 December 19, 16:48:17
OK, question.
I have followed these instructions and now Free Time is running properly with a no-cd crack and i haz no SUCKurom. My question is this:
I want to install K&B, IKEA, AL and M&G. When I install the first SP, do I still run the game using the FT crack, or do I need to get a new crack for K&B? Then, IF it works (it didn't yesterday), when I go to install IKEA, do I need a new crack for IKEA, or do I still use the FT crack?
I know when I install AL I will definitely need a new crack for that... but what about M&G? Will I still use the AL crack, or will I need an M&G crack? I want to try installing each pack one at the time to see if they work, since last night I installed them all together and got nothing. Any ideas?
For SPs you would use the crack for your latest EP, which is FT. You are correct that you will need the no-cd crack for AL when you install that. I believe the exception to the SP rule is M&G, which runs from its own .exe, so you would need a no-cd crack for that as well.
Rainne:
OK, clearly something is NOT RIGHT and I am blaming SecuROM.
Here's what my situation is.
After uninstalling back to Free Time, it worked... then I put in K&B and it worked... then I put in IKEA and it worked... then I put in AL and it wouldn't work.
I called tech support and they said it was my video card, so I upgraded my video card, but AL still wouldn't work, so I backed up to FT again, and it still wouldn't work. Then I discovered that despite my use of no-cd cracks, SecuROM was back on my system.
So I removed SecuROM again, only here's the thing... I got it all out of the registry keys and everything but the files that the steps say to delete don't show up, so I can't delete those.
I've spent all day going back and forth trying to get something to work, and it wouldn't, so I finally uninstalled the entire f*ing game and started over from scratch.
Base game worked... Uni worked... NL won't load, and it doesn't even have SecuROM on the f*ing disk.
PLEASE help. I am completely confused and frustrated and I have NO idea how to fix this. :(
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