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"Inglo" <ioo@??.żżż> wrote in message
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> On 4/18/2005 5:24 AM Tom Dauphin brightened our day with:
>
>> When Doom 3 was installed originally last year, I believe the CD was
>> always required to be in to run the game.
>>
>> Since installing RE, it appears the the CD is no longer required in
>> either Doom or RE? Has anyone else noticed this?
>>
>>
>>
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> I can't remember if it required the CD present after the 1.1 patch or
> if I was using a crack.  Must have been using a cracked exe.
> You should know that Doom 3 verifies your CD Key for both products
> every time you start it up now.  Though it won't prevent you from
> playing single player if there isn't a connection present.
>
> I'm all for more games with online authorization, or stuff like Steam,
> rather than getting securom, safedisc and starforce services and
> drivers installed on my computer just so a game can check if I have
> the CD in the drive or not.  I frickin' hate those, I think it was
> the latest SWKoTorII patch that just installed a securom thing called
> uaService7.exe running as a background service.  When I saw that I
> freaked out, running virus checks, searching google for info etc...
> thinking my system had been compromised.
> I played the Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Demo and liked it very much,
> but I won't be buying the PC version of the game because it includes
> Starforce protection, which installs an actual .sys driver to check if
> your CD is there.

Well, that's just one more reason to like Steam a bit more.  A .sys 
driver for a CD check.  That is just too much.   Is there even anything 
in the EULA about that crap?   The idiots just make it harder on the 
paying people.
McG.