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DemonicSailorMoon
01-03-2008, 07:26 PM
But I am hearing some people talking about that if you were to install Bioshock today, you would also be installing some sort of autopatcher but I don't remember ever doing that, then again I got the game around October. What is this thing that they say is being installed? Is it the 1.1 patch or is it SecuROM?
Autopatcher actually copies the exe to your hard drive and allows the installation to proceed (including activation via SecuRom registration). This requires an internet connection. Despite the misleading connotation, the "autopatcher" does not automatically patch the game to version 1.1; you still have to do that manually.
DemonicSailorMoon
01-03-2008, 08:04 PM
Thanks.
Oh yeah, I've also been hearing stuff about CD/DVD drives not reading legal copies of BioShock. Whats up with that?
I think this is only if you have emulation software installed (i.e. Alcohol 120, Daemon Tools, etc). Most versions of anti-copy schemes require such programs to be inactive, but if you have "virtual drives" created, then sometimes this results in your real CD/DVD drives not being properly detected. At least that is what I understand to the issue to be. It is best to just not install/uninstall such software unless you really know what you are doing. Windows itself is copy-protected and can be rendered inoperable by such tools if you are not careful.
Speebs
01-04-2008, 12:08 AM
I think this is only if you have emulation software installed (i.e. Alcohol 120, Daemon Tools, etc). Most versions of anti-copy schemes require such programs to be inactive, but if you have "virtual drives" created, then sometimes this results in your real CD/DVD drives not being properly detected. At least that is what I understand to the issue to be. It is best to just not install/uninstall such software unless you really know what you are doing. Windows itself is copy-protected and can be rendered inoperable by such tools if you are not careful.
All of what you said is true, except for the last sentence which is total bunk. Emulation programs are completely safe to use within Windows.
I know for a fact that Daemon Tools installs a device driver in the system folder that can corrupt Windows in certain circumstances. I believe it was a bug in a one of the versions that may have been corrected in later versions, but it really made me gunshy of using it. My PC went into a repeated reboot scenario. I think I had to go to Recovery Console or do a Windows Repair and rename/remove the sptd.sys driver from my system32 folder if I remember correctly. I can use it fine on my other PC however. Funny, since my other PC is XP but is always offline (kid's PC) and has not had Windows Updates in ages. I like to use the emulation software on the kid's PC because they always "borrow" my original discs, fubar them or lose them and then I am screwed.