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Article #710027Re: "A Quick Guide for a Supportive PC Gamer"
From: Xocyll
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:43
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:43
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pc games <pcgame...@yahoo.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Xocyll wrote: > >> [At least Bethesda took note of it and pulled the copy protection from >> Morrowind in the first patch since it was the cause of massive >> performance issues.] > >Bethesda pulled out copy-protection from Morrowind? Are you sure? >In my tests Morrowind does have copy-protection! >I bought Morrowind, applied the latest patch but it still asks me to >insert the disk each time I want to play A disc check isn't _copy_ protection. Uninstall the game and reinstall it. Don't patch it and try to play it. Patch it, notice a huge difference. This was well known and widely commented at the time. Did you buy the original release or a later "gold" release or budget release (since you seem to buy lots of those.) Only the original release had the truly horrible protection as far as I know. Xocyll -- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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