Bon Voyage: New Patch.. New Issues
Deviancy:
There's a big thread on MATY, N99 and a few other sites regarding the new patch for Bon Voyage.
Maxis has been using securom since April of 2007 to curb piracy, not that it helps. Supposedly the new patch for Bon Voyage uses the newest version of Securom and supposedly the newest version is a bit more spyware like. I've never had an issue with securom in the past, but times change. So I for one am not installing the patch. The patch does not resolve the nvidia issue, it only supposedly fixes the random spawning of tour guides, but the hacks on MATY already covered that. The patch instructions also claim that it may not fix issues with a lot/family and the player may need to create a new family/lot in order to take advantage of the patch.
There is no nocd crack for the new patch as of yet. So if you install the patch and you're using a nocd crack, it'll just screw things up, so don't do it. There may not be a nocd crack for the patch. Maxis doesn't number their patches, ie: they don't call it 1.1. So the scene kids who create nocd cracks often times have no idea the game has been patched. On top of that, the patches take so long to be done, the kids who do the nocd cracks have already moved on to bigger and better games.
I heard the patch also does not resolve the audio clipping. As I've stated in another thread, what fixes that is going with internal sound rather than a creative soundcard. I have a feeling maxis just said "screw testing with soundcards.. lets just test with onboard sound".
Anywho..
Securom is known to cause certain dvd burning software to have issues..
Here's the list..
--Fantom CD Emulator
--Alcohol 120%
--Nero Image Drive
--Phantom CD
--Clone CD
--Ark Virtual Drive
--Veritas DLA
--Daemon Tools
Sam the T-man:
So that's what the audio clipping was. Sheesh. If all the patch "does" is fix the no spawning bug, time to think how to re-install the bugger methinks... I'm hoping my messed up sim (in one lot) and showers/baths (in another lot) won't be so bad - I read that one person's issue was that jump bugs already experienced were worsened with this patch.
It's like Seasons all over again - issue patch too quick then find themselves needing to revise it :roll:
Deviancy:
I haven't used the patch yet, I built a new pc that uses onboard sound so the clipping went away. But from what I heard on the board, the clipping is still there with the patch and there's new lag but removed lag if that makes sense. They fixed one minor lag issue, created a new one.
I understand that the Sims is a complex lil game, so resolving minor issues that only affect certain users, that's hard. But when a game has an issue with a creative soundcard, that isn't minor. Most gamers who build their own pc's use creatives products since onboard sound has limitations. I no longer do because a lot of other game developers also stopped testing their products on the soundcards, or so it seemed.
Here's another tidbit.. securom is known to eat up ram. I don't mean it ruins ram but it pulls a lot of memory and has a habit of not letting it go again when you quit the game. So every time you restart the game it eats up a lil more. Eventually the system will run out of ram and that's what can cause the pc to freeze or even possibly cause that out of sync error some were getting and blaming on nvidia.
MATY has a thread on removing securom, this may seem like the thing to do..
One big warning though...
In order to run the sims without securom you need a nocd crack. There is no proper nocd crack for the new patch yet, if you apply the old nocd crack to the patched version, it may work but it may also override some of what the patch fixed. So I do not recommend it. I also do not recommend removing securom if you're a normal gamer and have other games on your pc. A lot of games use securom these days. So then you'll need no cd cracks for all of those games as well.
chriskay:
I've installed the patch, do I still need to install the Anti-Redundancy hack from MATY too?
Cleo999:
I have installed the patch and Nvidia new drivers - this helped a little bit, but did not resolve the blue screen issue ... I mean, sometimes I can play for a couple of hours with no problem at all and sometimes I get 3 or 4 blue screens in 10 minutes! Once it even went blue while loading the game ...
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