Sharing my frustrations with current anti-piracy "techniques"
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Crosspost from Bioware forum. May be extremely helpful for other unsuspecting customers that patched to 1.13:
Posted: Wednesday, 06 August 2008 01:06AM
Quote: Posted 08/05/08 13:39 (GMT) by Rashkae_
It has recently come to light that patch 1.13 includes an update to SecuRom that installs a Windows Shell Extension the first time NWN2 is run after patching.
This Shell Extension has a nasty habit of causing Windows Explorer to crash every time you right click on an EXE file (or a shortcut pointing to an EXE file.)
I have spent the past 48 hours off and on trying various Spyware and Antivirus products to name the source of my random Explorer crashes (since patching to 1.13). SECUROM has left my system inoperable. Couldn't even copy files. Booted to UBCD 4Win. Ran HOURS of memory chip tests. Found nothing.
Now I read this...
That's it OBSIDIAN. ENOUGH SECUROM <bleep>.
UPDATE: The SECUROM repair patch DID in fact resolve my random EXE crashes. Motherboard is nVidia 680i with latest production WinXP Sp3 32-bit drivers.
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