What's your take on Securom?
PnJz:
I haven't purchased anything for my Sims 2 past Seasons because I'm afraid of Securom. Do you think there's a valid reason I've been reading so much about how horrible Securom is to your computer?
Has anyone had personal experience?
I'd love to get BV and FT but from what I've been hearing, it wouldn't be worth it. I just spent over $2,000. on this computer in January. I don't want it being messed up for a $30 expansion pack game.
Please share any information you can.
Thanks in advance.
squegee:
I bought a new computer this year and now I can't use my burner. I took it in several times to see if I had so virus or if something was wrong...it turns out it was BV...It stopped working after I purchased BV...I hate it. If the game crashes I'm never reinstalling it...
EKozski:
After the horror stories I've read about SecruRom, I'm not about to take that kind of a chance.
I almost bought an extra GIG of memory, but the temptation to expand beyond Pe(s)ts was there. I changed my mind.
There's not a company on this planet, or any planet for that matter, that can tell me what I can and cannot do on my computer.
I'm not about to let a company like EA destroy my livelyhood.
grannyfay02:
I have BV and FT and can still use my burner to make cd's and DVD's, but have a great wee program called Slysoft any DVD, it still works great with all backups I make if this helps. It cost me about $30 US
roger9:
In February, this year, I lost the game owing to crashes. I also lost my backups. Long story. Recently, I bought a new computer-- Quad core CPU, 2gigs RAM, a wicked video card w. 520 ram on it, tons of hard drive space-- I reinstalled. I have all the add-ons to Bon Voyage (BV). I loaded everything up to Seasons & started rebuilding & populating Pleasantvew. I found my 1000 downloads, still zipped, on another computer. I have unzipped & installed most of them over a week. Then I installed BV w. the dreaded SecuROM. While running with Seasons, I could shut off the game, go online & download some stuff-- not mods & hacks, mind, just stuff like eyes & clothes-- put them in the game & go back in. After installing BV. I have to do this: Make sure the BV disc is never in the machine unless I'm about to go into the game. Re-boot my machine everytime I download any product from the net & install it into the game. Re-boot my machine each time, after I close the game & make sure I remove the disc from the CD drive. If I don't take these precautions, the brand new state of the art computer jams & goes to black screen where even CntrL-alt-delete won't get me to Task Manager & I have to unplug the whole thing, reconnect & then boot up new. If I leave the BV CD in the machine, it starts up chattering when I'm doing things totally unrelated to Sims2. Like a rookie cop that's gotta look at everything I'm doing. It's un-nerving. I must say the game runs well when I get it loaded & the load time after the Custom Products Screen is fast. I assume SecuROM stops looking around then. I have heard rumors that SecuROM writes itself to Ring0 instead of Ring3 which puts it in charge of the basic ops system (Windows) if it wants. That's scary. I may delete the whole game & reload up to Seasons but I really liked Vacations in the old Sims1 game & I'd like to try BV here before I make a final decision. I certainly won't be buying Free Style or the new Sims3 game when it comes out. Happy Simming, Roger9
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