securerom issues

[Dajet24]

Anyone else having colinizations securerom accuse your disk of being a back up? pretty annoyed that i have to use a no cd patch to play my game.

i tried puting my IDE in PIO mode like it suggests no go.

 

[snoopy369]

What do you mean, your disk being a backup? Your CD-ROM, or your HDD?

 

[NikNak]

What do you mean, your disk being a backup? Your CD-ROM, or your HDD?

SecuROM has issues in which it sometimes will decide that a person's CD/DVD drive is a backup partition on their HDD. SecuROM will prevent you from starting the game because it thinks you're trying to run a burned image rather than the physical retail media. Once it's made that decision, it's very difficult to convince it otherwise.

 

[Dajet24]

ya thats exactly the issue. I wish they would just do some sorta online registration over potential never working options like securerom. the worst part is securerom is the easiet thing to get a no cd crack for... seems like a kinda pointless piracy deterent and probaly screws more buyers then anything else.

 

[Greybriar]

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization has SecuROM? Civ4 had SafeDisc according to The Daemons Home.

I hope the next thing you tell me isn't that there's a DRM on it like there was on Bioshock!

 

[Lord Shadow]

It appears to use SecuROM, but dunno which version. No DRM as far as I know.

 

[Dale]

There's no DRM policies like BioShock, Spore or Red Alert 3.

It's just a simple SecureROM disk check.

If you're having problems with SecureROM there is a way around it with a new exe, to be RELOADED in no time.

 

[Ket]

*cough* Cute Dale Cute.... *cough*

 

[City Builder]

I prefer using no cd patches (hacks, cracks, whatever you'd like to call them) over having to keep my game cd's laying around either in the drive or otherwise where they are quite likely to get scratched at some point, personally I get more annoyed that I can't find a no cd hack for a game or that the publishers weren't generous enough to provide one on the physical media for me, that I legally own then I do when I have to take 5 minutes out of my busy life to download one from any of the popular sites that deal with that sort of thing, but maybe that's just me.

The only trouble I've had with securerom on newer games is with my internal lightscribe drive, I guess it's getting a couple years old now, but my external USB DVD drive (also lightscribe) has worked flawlessly for all game copy protection I have to run. Hell, even the Windows XP disk doesn't like my internal DVD drive anymore and I have to install windows from the external USB dvd drive, which has been solid since installing it, other than having to turn it off every 6 months or so and then back on to get it to be recognized in windows explorer.

 

[delijoe]

It seems like it doesn't like external DVD drives...

 

[Knut_Are_M]

securom is a joke. hey to all people with truble, just delete paul.dll. you know the dll file for securom. securom is now deaktivated.
PS: you might want to use the newest win xp x64 bit version for this, since it partically corrupts securom!

Makeing it easier to remove it.

 

[Timos]

This is utter crap. If I can't fix this tonight I'm going to send the game back and get a refund. What a load of rubbish!

 

[Timos]

I forgot to ask, so how to you remove the paul.dll file then???

 

[Lord Shadow]

It's better to get a No-CD crack than delete paul.dll. I highly doubt deleting it will 'disable' SecuROM. It might prevent you from playing the game, if the security system complains about the missing .DLL.

 

[Knut_Are_M]

it requires the patch for windows xp that currupts securom deniing it super admin rights for at all to useful.
The point is you need another program to deny it uperadmin rights and therefore allows you to simply delete it.
no moveing olders etc.
WIN xp 64 does not allow superadmin programs so securom it currupted.

Deleteing paul.dll will change it to a cd disk cheak.
This will delete any install limits you might have.
This will remove it's right to deny other programs use.
IT can only be used on securom 7.2x.
You know the one with install limits.