12-05-2004, 04:51 PM
AtomicKitKat,Dec 5 2004, 10:19 AM Wrote:I bought Civilisation 3, only to find to my consternation that those b******s at EA want me to switch off all CD duplication programs. Okay, reasonable request, I thought. So I disabled CloneCD's Virtual Drive(I don't even use that stuff any more), made sure it didn't start up, and rebooted. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero. I can understand their concerns over piracy, but when I buy a game that I meet the requirements for, I bloody well expect to be able to play it. I'm not about to reinstall Windows 98(for probably the 10th time in my life) just to play a game, so the game will sit and collect dust till I get a brand new system(or someone can hack a way past that irritating POS requirement)
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I'm not sure about Civ 3, but in Doom 3 the protection software actually looks for known emulation programs on the hard drive. With the emulation software on partition c: and Doom 3 on partition f:, I can run Doom 3 even while my emulated Diablo CD is loaded into a virtual drive (I haven't tried actually running Doom 3 off a virtual drive, heh). With the emulation software on the same drive partition as Doom 3, however, I cannot run the game even if everything is disabled.
I'm sure the publisher, Activision, is responsible for this great protection scheme. If I worked at IdSoftware, I would be a bit disgusted to have such useless software attached to the game I spent years polishing.