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Originally Posted by Ducimus
4. No DRM.
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Well, I hate to bring it up again, but the dowloadable version and the original version were and still are graced with SecuROM, Sony's gift to the world, but sold dearly to the game companies.
With the release of patch 1.4, the DRM was completely removed. Then with the release of SH4UBM, the DRM was back, wearing a brand new suit! Ubi claimed it was gone, but SecuROM was back performing revenge on those who angered Sony.
Every time you start SH4, SecuROM scans your system searching for any process on its blacklist of prohibited software. If it finds one, SH4 will immediatly cease running and you will be confronted with an arcane window explaining that SecuROM has found some kind of program on your machine and an error number. Get rid of the software if you want to run Silent Hunter 4.
Owners of SH4 Gold get off scott free. No DRM of any kind.
There are ways to cloak your machine so SecuROM can't find blacklisted processes. And there are ways to trick SecuROM into running Silent Hunter and then restart the prohibited processes.