What's your take on Securom?
jamesabrown1:
I agree. The drive was probably damaged in transit. As a matter of course, more to protect the CD itself than the drive, I always remove the CD as soon as I am finished with it to protect both the CD and the drive. Sometimes I remove it as soon as the SIMS load screen starts, right after the EA screen. In any case, so far I've not had any problems with Securom on either my PC, an XP machine, or my laptop, a VISTA machine.
jamesabrown1:
One thing I forgot. Every once in a rare while I get the please load the original disk instead of a backup message, I just remove the CD and reload it and the problem goes away, or sometimes it persists so I hold the CD by the rim and use my shirt as a buffer/cleaner and then reload the CD and it works. Sometimes we all forget that with a lot of use, the disks get dirty and need a cleaning.
rockguitardevil:
I have all the games and never had any problems with it same with my friend who also owns all the games. I Run it on my laptop it loads at a decent rate and never crashes or slows down nor does it mess with anything else on the laptop.
roger9:
Hi rockguitardevil-- it would help other people if you would tell us about your machine, the CPU, RAM & video card & size of hard drive when you have no problems so people buying a new machine would have some idea of what to buy when they are upgrading. roger9.
Zelia Theb:
Would anyone be able to tell me if this issue is SecuRom related? I don't remember when this started (as in, with what EP or stuff pack), but I do know that I noticed the problem first while playing the Sims 2.
It's not huge, just annoying.
Now and then, my computer starts up as if it is trying to run a disc (not sure which drive, I have both a CD and DVD drive). It makes a lot of noise for a few minutes, then quiets down. At first I was thinking that maybe my computer was getting overheated from playing Sims, and it was just the fan going (even though it really does sound like a disc drive). But I try to keep my computer in a cooler area with circulation, and I don't leave it on for days and days (I know some people do that; I don't).
It mainly does this when I am playing the Sims (about every 20-30mins when the game is running). It will continue to do it after I get out of the game. It won't do it if I haven't played the game in a while (though once in a great great while it will do it, which is why I wasn't certain if it was related to heat and the fan). But I am more sure that it sounds like one of my disc drives.
Other than that, I don't really have a problem burning anything (I don't have anything fancy, ACID music works okay, WMP works good). It just irks me that when I put in a CD to burn (for a data CD), it opens up another program (that came with my computer) as a default program now to burn, which it never did before.
I have yet to install FT and AL (Just got them semi-free from trading stuff in at GameStop). I wanted to do some research on SecuRom first. Are these problems random, or do you have to have certain system specs to encounter them?
Also, is anyone aware if ACID music, Sonar, or Reason (all music programs) are affected any way by the addition or removal of SecuRom?
Thanks in advance!
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