TOCA Race Driver still protected !?!

[fraggle03]

Hi Folks,
as said in the Intro, the Game is protected by a "new" fading copy-protection. After finishing the first Championship and starting the second, the Cars at starting-grid began to jump around like bunnies on L$D :eek:
Used the fixed exe included on CD released by Immersion...
Has somebody played beyond the 2-3rd championship? maybe there's another crack that works..?

[lee_uk]

hmmm....i smell a warez version here:o

[ByteMare]

Say hello to Securom *custom* protection:D Hmm.. I thought
that IMS did a proper crack on this one...well, if you got the original game, it should be no problem..you do have the original, do you?


Edit: Deviance released a proper fix, so obviously IMS missed some checks in the exe

[fraggle03]

Indeed i had not the Original :D
But i really check them out before buying them, and Folks this is worth its money.
Tomorrow i will go out and buy me a german version.
thnx anyway

[jossey]

I found an idea from the forum below

FileForums > GameCopyWorld > PC Games > DTM Race Driver Crack ! DONT WORK

anyway it didnt work for me but it worked for my mate!

try it!

good luck if you get a no cd key then drop me a line @

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[rwdrex]

I'm sorry my previous post on how to make the Deviance crack into a no-CD was being done from my memory. My hard drive had crashed. Now with a new hard drive I've "remembered."

Use the 'proper' Deviance No-CD.

Copy all of the contents of the 'Play Disk' into your game install directory (include all folders and all files).

Use regedit:
Goto 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Codemasters\Race Driver\'
Modify the CD Path so it contains the game install directory. For Example "C:\Program Files\Codemasters\Race Driver\" instead of "D:\"

Now you have a No-CD!

[RincewindTheWiz]

Originally posted by jossey
anyway it didnt work for me but it worked for my mate! The problem is not starting or playing the game, the problem is that the non working cracks activate a custom protection, which results in all kinds of weird behaviour. Most important is that at some point with the bad exe, yours and all AI cars will crash and pile up no matter what you do, other weirdness has also been reported. All these problems do NOT happen with the working crack or the original. So if I was you I'd check to see if your mate doesn't have weird problems :D

[al21]

So where is the proper crack then? The Deviance one right?

I have to report that with this crack it can be NoCDed (at leat in my case) by the method described above, not sure any weird problem will come, though.

[RincewindTheWiz]

That's the trouble with those damn custom protections. Thanks to good old Codemaster we can't ever be certain if some wierd car behavior was designed that way, or maybe a bug, or maybe the ****ty copy protection kicking in. AAAAAAARGH :D

[ByteMare]

Originally posted by RincewindTheWiz
That's the trouble with those damn custom protections. Thanks to good old Codemaster we can't ever be certain if some wierd car behavior was designed that way, or maybe a bug, or maybe the ****ty copy protection kicking in. AAAAAAARGH :D

Amen to that, Rince. Just a funny thing comes to my mind when you mentioned "bugs": Codemasters use to have lots of bugs in their games, so they decided to use this custom crap to cover it up, the fact that they can't code a proper game (Do I hear the name: Operation Flashpoint? Anyone?) In public they say: Oh yeah but that's a part of the protection, you damn warezkiddie.
Internally: Holy **** guys, we really ****ed up again, should have fixed those bugs the last time..

Just a theory..:D