Fine for 3 days then nothing

[Gaff-Oz]

Hi,
Hoping for a little help...
I bought and installed bioshock, after first updating my drivers, had no problems at all. The game installed and played without a hitch. The only thing is I have to load the drive tray each time to get the autoexe to run, as it wouldn't run by clicking the drive icon, but that was no big deal.
Have been playing for 3 days, have made NO changes to my system since the installation, no new drivers or programs, no changes of any kind. I went to play today, the launch dialog came up, the one that says "install - play - uninstall - etc" hit play... nothing... not a twitch. Tried again... nope...tried putting the disk in another drive..no good..rebooted and tried again... same result... several times more... not a buzz, whir or hum. I can't work it out, why would it work faultlessly for a few days, being started maybe ten times without a problem, and then just stop? Everything else on the machine is running just fine. Has anybody else experienced this?
Many thanks for any help.

specs:
Vista home premium 32bit
Coreduo E6600
2 gig of ram
NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
Sound Blaster X-Fi
Australian retail boxed release
Raid 0

[Musedmark]

Its possible the securom software conflicts with your dvd drive, i dont know the specifics, but ive seen it mentioned on other sites. Do you have any 'virtual drives' running? ie alcohol 120 or deamon?

[thurauh1]

Have your AVG on your system. If so, try uninstalling it. This helps sometimes or rather most of the time :)

You did remember to install it using Vista User Acess Control (UAC) ??

[Gaff-Oz]

I don't have any virtual drives, just 2 optical drives (DVD burners) and 3 SATA II hard drives, two matched and running in RAID -0, and the other as back up storage. I am running AVG, but am not to keen to leave my system without protection in order to run the game, but will try with it turned off. Thanks for the advice, and I'll let you know how I go.
Gaff

[Musedmark]

I have windows vista ultimate and i run avg, i hava seen no faults or fake virus checks by avg. Just some helpfull input that may stop you from disabling anti-virus :)

However, if you google your dvd drives and add 'secruom' to the search it may tell you if the drive is indeed somehow odd with the software (longshot)

[Gaff-Oz]

Shutting down AVG made no difference. It worked in the drive OK for the first few days, so I don't see how that can be it, but I'll try...

[Gaff-Oz]

Found the problem! Had a look at the AGV test log and it had indentified boishock.exe as "Obfustat.XJR" and removed it. Unfortunately, just restoring the .EXE from the virus vault didn't seem to fix it. I just I'll have to re install. Does anyone know if this virus exists? Could I be infected or is it just a glitch? And how can I get this info to the Admins or boishock people so they can try to fix it?

[Hadrian]

Gaff, its been covered in the unofficial help sticky at the top of the forum m8. I believe it has a limited guide on the problem and as yet the only solution to it.

Read here ;

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8397&page=2