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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Grizzly on April 21, 2010, 01:08:37 pm

Title: I hate securom.
Post by: Grizzly on April 21, 2010, 01:08:37 pm
Because seriously, it makes no frakking sense that I have to put the Oblivion (GOTY) disc in my computer to uninstall the damn game...
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Locutus of Borg on April 21, 2010, 01:54:11 pm
You'll do it if you don't want to become an unperson!

-The ministry
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Bobboau on April 21, 2010, 07:35:23 pm
oh, you don't like it? that is odd cause most people just love the **** out of it.
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Klaustrophobia on April 21, 2010, 09:21:53 pm
you could just delete the install folder.  i'm pretty sure the disk won't need to be present for that to work.  honestly securom doesn't bother me.  at least all it wants is a disk check, not extra programs running in the background or an active internet connection to a registration server.
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Droid803 on April 21, 2010, 09:41:55 pm
I've heard it crashes some people's computers.
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Locutus of Borg on April 21, 2010, 10:51:51 pm
It makes some games unplayable
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Droid803 on April 21, 2010, 11:12:25 pm
It makes some gays unplayable

Games too.
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Klaustrophobia on April 22, 2010, 12:01:48 am
personally i find ALL gays unplayable.
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Flipside on April 22, 2010, 12:23:34 am
Congratulations, you spotted a typo, now, let's please stick to the subject matter.
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: BloodEagle on April 22, 2010, 09:32:05 am
Because seriously, it makes no frakking sense that I have to put the Oblivion (GOTY) disc in my computer to uninstall the damn game...

Well, you have to have an Internet connection (and a specific piece of anti-pirate software) to uninstall The Orange Box, so your disk-check could be a Hell of a lot worse.

Of course, I don't remember having to do that with my copy (and I don't feel like testing it). Must be something specific to the GOTY package.
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Locutus of Borg on April 22, 2010, 02:35:08 pm
Congratulations, you spotted a typo, now, let's please stick to the subject matter.

A damn funny typo that I have corrected XD
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Droid803 on April 22, 2010, 03:18:52 pm
I still don't get what the purpose of requiring copy protection for uninstalling is, though...
So people who pirated it can't uninstall it when they're about to get busted?
Seems dumb, seeing as if they managed to bypass your copy protection in the first place...
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: headdie on April 22, 2010, 05:17:58 pm
I still don't get what the purpose of requiring copy protection for uninstalling is, though...
So people who pirated it can't uninstall it when they're about to get busted?
Seems dumb, seeing as if they managed to bypass your copy protection in the first place...

it would require common sense to realize that, something i have often noted an absence of in many companies either as a customer and/or an employee
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Klaustrophobia on April 22, 2010, 09:43:45 pm
i think it's more likely a bug or oversight in the software that they just don't bother to fix.
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Lukeskywalkie on May 11, 2010, 01:51:59 am
I won't use the magic word, but I can tell you that most virtual drives will handle oblivion's securom.  You'll still have the disc in a drive, it just won't be the plastic one.  It's what I do - it even speeds things up a little at startup ( no optical disk spin-up)
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: S-99 on May 11, 2010, 04:11:00 am
Virtual clone drive (http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html) is free.
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: jr2 on May 11, 2010, 09:10:52 am
As is Daemon Tools Lite (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/eng/home)  :)
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: BloodEagle on May 11, 2010, 11:39:54 am
Or you could just no-dvd patch it. But, you know, whatever.  :P
Title: Re: I hate securom.
Post by: Klaustrophobia on May 12, 2010, 12:17:46 am
Or you could just no-dvd patch it. But, you know, whatever.  :P

yup.