What's your take on Securom?
Tenshii~Akari:
Look @ MaryH's signature. ;)
roger9:
SecuROM is a protective privacy package designed by Electronic Arts to prevent people from altering or copying parts of their programs. It seems to affect different computers in different ways. Read up at http:\\securom.sublimesims.net\ for more detail. For those who report no changes or problems in their computer behaviour, aren't you the lucky ones? I have to reboot my brand new computer before I put the Bon Voyage disc into the machine, every time. It's still worth having that tropical island in my game, though. Roger9
Tomkat:
SecuRom never had any effect on my PC.
I wont say its harmless, because of all the bitching and moaning people do about it...there HAS to be something very evil about it...
All I do...install the game from original discs, and then get a no-cd/dvd. thats it, dont even start the game with the original installer or off the disc, and there will be no securom.
Id rather be safe than sorry... and even while no-dvd etc stuff is considered 'wrong' by some people, i dont see a point in that. see, i legally own all my games, and i believe that you have to do what you must to make your gaming experience the way you want it. If you have illegal games, thats your problem if everything stuffs up.
roger9:
To Tomkat-- been away. Read your post & I think you should tell us how to get a no-cd/dvd unless it's illegal or very fattening. I also think people posting their problems & successes about SecuROM should say what hardware they have & whether they run Windows XP or Vista (or ME, or 98,etc). Then we would have better knowledge about what systems SecuROM is screwing up. Another point to Tomkat-- You don't legally own all your games. If you read the licence agreement that they make you sign when you download the game from web or CD, you will usually see legaleeze statements about your limited right to use the game, your total prohibition from copying it or any parts of it, & on & on. If you own a car you can do what you like w. it-- If you own a game, there is very little you can legally do with it except play. So I'm taking my own advice above in this post & here goes:
My computer has an Intel Core 2 quad Q6600 @2400MHz, Ram: 2x 1024DDR2-SDRAM, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT video card & a ST3320620AS 320 GB hard drive which is 10% used. I am operating w. Windows XP Home edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 3. This should be enough power to run anything & any game now in existance. BUT-- It still takes me 2 or 3 tries to start up Sims Bon Voyage. Once it's running, I have no problems w. freezes or other crap. If the computer has been running & I had time away from the desk & it's in sleep mode, starting up I always get some error message. Either it's a dark screen w. a frozen load that won't ever respond to control-alt-delete. I have to shut the unit off manually & start again. Or, the BV CD sends messages like, "Take the backup CD out of the drive & try the original disc." I don't have a back-up, I wouldn't know how to make one & I am using the original BV CD that came w. my purchased game. The third error message is "Time out. Insufficient time to search for the disc. Try Again?" You can imagine my frustration when I get all 3 of these error mesages in one attempt to play the game, one after the other. If I didn't enjoy the BV add-on so much, I would delete the whole mess (after saving my documents, of course) & reload up to Seasons & play with that. Does anyone know if EA plans to fix this mess or are they just moving on as usual? Roger9
EKozski:
I'd say, they're just moving right along as usual.
Nothing on the horizon indicates they have any intention of making life easier for the people that own SecuRom.
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