How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
Zazazu:
Quote from: AmberDiceless on 2007 October 11, 23:11:54
especially when your rationale is basically "Some kid might try it and mess up his game(s)."
especially since "our" reaction to some kid doing that would be to point and laugh.
I haven't decided yet on torrenting/buying in the future. I would have used a crack from day one with BV, but I believe Fairlight's wasn't out yet and then I had a dumb-butt moment. For the whole EP...well. It depends on how EAxis behaves itself in dealing with this and their general attitude towards Customer Service. Isn't looking good.
Mid-posting edit: Ok, now you really are pissing me off, Deviancy. This isn't the fucking BBS. We don't get paranoid just because someone says the sky is falling, we look up and decide for ourselves.
morriganrant:
You seem to be assuming that this is the only game we play. I will play with an unpatched version of any game if it means that the game in question only supplies me with the files that it needs to play. That is the trade off. No patch but no other possible issues and no extra things on my computer.
It seems that there is actualy a pretty good sized number of simmers with cd burner issues. Not so much other gammers but simmers yes, it seems like every time I talk to one, their cd burner is suffering. Its the major complaint at the moment, most haven't even noticed the virus scanners not working because they know jack so they probably don't run it like they should and most others don't even know what the hell a memory leak is. You have to actually know what you are talking about for the memory leak and all those complaints on the bbs by different people with their drivers and software malfunctioning are certainly making it a major issue. I really don't see how it can be called a few, its more then a few, it's just not all.
Deviancy:
First off, I don't mean to be pissing anyone off...
But there are things some of you are not letting lurkers know about bypassing securom, such as using a nocd crack may actually open the door to other bugs. There's no guarantee a nocd crack is going to not create its own issue, such as the original Sims 2 nocd crack that locked out the building options. You're also not letting the lurkers know that some hacks are patch specific such as inteeniator, which I bet will not work on the fairlight crack, at least properly.. hoping I'm wrong though. I also hope there is a new nocd crack made with the patch in mind, I'm just not holding my breath because I know most of the demand right now is going to be on Bioshock since it's the big machismo game to play right now.
And it's hard to tell a newbie what a memory leak is and how it affects things. You can sit there on the phone with a customer for hours trying to help them troubleshoot a situation and they'll do the total opposite. "open the registry and delete the securom key".. 'Ok.. I deleted the soulseek key".
So again.. it's important for big gamers to know that bypassing securom isn't the answer..
Boycotting the publishers is the answer..
But people are lazy :D
morriganrant:
The building options being blocked out is caused by a badly made no-cd. Get a different one is the answer. Actually all the info that you mention that lurkers may need is either on this site, on the site of the ones who make the very involved hacks, or can be googled. It is not up to us to do someone else's research. Inteeninator supplies that info for themselves, besides that it is not supported here and you will get hassled if you ask about it here. If the people can not read where that version of the hack says that it needs this patch or another then the problem is their own. If they can't read that, then they are certainly going to have bigger issues with such an involved mod. If they discover that there is some issue with the no-cd method then they can simply remove it and name their original exe back to the original name. Game is back to what passes as "normal". The information listed in this forum was not really intended for the "average" user, it was intended for someone who could actually use their cognitive functions enough to follow directions and use a search.
We are not arguing that the bigger issue is that it is there at all. We are merely suppling a work around for those who want to enjoy the game that they have purchased while waiting for their letters to get to EA. There are many here who have taken such measures and have used this method. You seem to believe that they are using this method instead. No one here has ever called it a solution, it's only a quick fix for now.
Deviancy:
I understand where you're coming from, really, I do.
But I feel it is important to inform even the lurker of known problems they'll have if they use the available workaround. It isn't my job nor am I required to do so, but I feel it's the nice thing to do. I mean I know I personally have better things to do then hop on a dozen sims sites in order to find out if one hack will conflict with another hack. I'd rather have had the person who posted the hack inform me of the possible issues their hack will cause. So that's all I'm doing here, I'm advising those lurkers or those possible newbies that if they use this workaround they may run into future issues with hacks such as the inteeniator. Which is an excellent hack btw.. I love the abort the fetus part.. wickedly fun. And they may have games that won't run anymore because they never put a nocd crack on those and those games were also relying on those securom files.
In order to inform people of certain issues, it may at times make those who are more experienced feel as if they're being talked down to, but I feel it's worth that sacrifice in order to inform those who are less experienced.
I miss the days when a game was on four floppies and the protection usually was just a serial number..
The good ol days..
Interesting walkthrough though.. I had all of those files on my system except for.. "uaservice7.exe". I checked for it a number of ways, it just didn't exist. I wonder if its because I use yasu to hide my drives and virtual drives from Securom.
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