How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
morriganrant:
There is a one place that has no-cds? ...Is it like, that one place across from the bar, where we eat sometimes? No, not that place, the other one, you know the one.
If you have AL, the only SP that you would need an no-cd for is M&G. It works like an ep and you run from that one if you have it.
In regards to spyware. Firefox. Adblock or Adblock plus. If that is not secure enough, then you can add no script to it as well, that would require some configuration, as is it doesn't like MTS2.
I use gamecopyworld for no-cds. Gameburnworld makes me feel dirty for some reason. Regardless of where you go, you should be scanning files and your pc with your virus scan and with something like Adaware. Regardless of where you go on the internet.
Hegelian:
Just to report my recent experience. . . .
Three days ago I installed on the PC I built last June the entire game through AL, restoring my old game from Pets/GL, updating, patching, etc. It all went mostly well (except for duplicates of the two Seasons bin families due to an incorrect installation of the clean stealth neighborhood, and subsequent purging of all the bin families added by the expansions). The game was running fine, no lots were corrupted, no flashing blue objects (even no missing wants).
This morning the game would not start because no CD was detected. This was because no optical drives were detected by WinXP. The two drives were seen by XP, but the drivers could not be loaded (error code 39). I messed around with moving the drives to different controllers, installing a different drive, uninstalled all my cd-writing and .wav-extraction software, etc. to no avail, which led me to do the SecuROM purge.
The purge process was not difficult, although it helps (a lot) to have had experience with working with the command line and the registry editor. The AL patch 2 no-CD crack works without any problem (so far); it is the one by Vitality. However, purging SecuROM did not restore my optical drives.
I tried installing new drivers for the IDE and SATA controllers, and CD drivers. I attempted a firmware update, but the updater could not find the drive. Finally, I found a link at the Sony optical storage Web site to a Microsoft knowledge base article on fixing the code 39 problem, by deleting a couple registry values related to optical drives. Somewhat surprisingly, this worked, even though the original article was written to address a problem with Easy CD Creator.
In case someone might find it useful, here is the relevant Microsoft page:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=270008
Although it primarily addresses the code 31 error, it also covers the code 39 error.
Of course, now Civ 4 won't run (it uses a different version of SecuROM). :P
Syko:
I have been reading all this because I think Securom has messed up my computer. I had all the EPs and SPs installed, and quite a lot of CC and game mods. Suddenly half the time my computer did not recognize the M&G disk in the drive. Since it did read other games, I thought possibly my disk was bad, and I uninstalled M&G. Nope, would not read AL either. So I reinstalled M&G. My neighborhood and my downloads folder disappeared. OK, glitch. So I went to re-download the CC and mods. Some showed up in the game, some didn't. My sims had no blur, and hairy bodies, but no crammyboys, for example.
So I decided to uninstall the entire thing and reinstall. Guess what? My computer tells me that there is no disk in the DVD drive. I can't reinstall. I have literally spent hundreds of dollars on a game that I can not play because the manufacturer is afraid I might pirate it? Excuse me, but it's my dang game. I bought it.
The really sad thing is that I decided (before someone said the "S" word to me) that the computer was toast, and I ordered a new one from Dell. Heh.
I would love to take Securom off but I am terrified to go into the registry. Anyone know if reformatting would remove it? I have an Alienware and it has the Alien Spawn disk which restores the computer to factory condition. This would be easier to me than to try to mess around in places I don't know anything about.
Hegelian:
See my post above:
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In case someone might find it useful, here is the relevant Microsoft page:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=270008
Although it primarily addresses the code 31 error, it also covers the code 39 error.
This is for when your optical drives disappear.
J. M. Pescado:
I see Reggikkowinkle has let you out of your closet again.
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