This works... i've tried everything else with no avail (CureRom - cureRom Lite etc). This is the only thing i've used that has worked flawlessly - thank you :)

I wonder what I am doing wrong. I've followed every piece of advice written in this thread, save for physically disabling my drives. I used DT 4.03 (even tried 3.47 out of hope), CureRom 1.31, CureRom Lite, Prot.Stop, SR7.Stop, S4Hide(just in case), AntiSecurom, I've downloaded the mini image and mounted it instead and I've removed any traces of StarForce from the system by their own removal tool.

Yet I still get the "a required security module was found up in your ass" message. If that matters I use Windows Media Edition, not XP home or pro. Lucas Arts' technical support is not really a support and now I am unable to play the game I pre-ordered!! This is in a word bull...

Any ideas what I should do (aside from waiting for a NoCD patch of course) would be appreciated...

You should probably reinstall the game. Use DT4.03 and make sure that the only virtual drive you have on your system is the one (must be the only Virt drive) there is the one that DT will use. Follow the instructions of the curerom tool to the letter. Oh, and make sure you are using an uncorrupted downloaded ROM. Also, removing starforce is not a good idea, since the games flat out won't run without it.

Hey Slon, thanks for giving me a hand... Yeah, the only virtual drive I have is the DT's, but I do have a drive to read all those memory cards & etc. so the drive letters are full up to K, with Deamon taking G; but I guess that shouldn't be a problem...

What did you mean by having an uncorrupted downloaded ROM? And when I re-install the game, should I mount my image with DT all emulations on, or would that change anything at all?:)

By the way, the company that makes Starforce protection says that any time you run a game that uses SF the program will automatically install itself and then run the game, so that shouldn't matter.

Drive letter shouldn't matter. I have mine on L. Basically, make sure you mini-image was downloaded completely with no corruptions. Perhaps check it with

http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=34434

?

Yes, have all emulation options on. Then, in CureRom, make sure when you edit the file, that all the emulation options are grayed (basically tells it to use whatever options DT has on).

As for SF, just make sure you don't uninstall it once game is installed.

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I have tried everything to get this game to work.
I figure ill just wait to get the no-cd crack.
btw if you cpu is running slow run ad-aware.With mine it wouldnt let me into anything but now im fine i deleted that stuff and now i sit here waiting for the no-cd crack:D

Hi,

I can't provide help for the cd authentification errors, but I can help with those who have the "security module could not be loaded" problem. This has to do with files deemed eeviiil by the security of the game, and which are currently installed on the PC. I don't know which files are exactly to blame, but an issue to this problem is the following:

1) Log in to a new account (I use the guest account)
2) Mount your image file (I use the mini one, but the normal one should be ok) with Daemon tools v4.3 all emulation enabled.
3) Start the game with Securom loader.

Works 100% of the time.

Hope this helps !

%100 working for me :

1. Download Securom Loader 1.1 (updated 21/2/2006)
2. Mount mini or full image with dæmon tools v4.03, all emulations enabled.
3. run securom loader, choose sweaw.exe from data directory.

no need to account switch.

I used Game Jackal... Didn't use a profile map. During the "locate title" part I used sweaw.exe, NOT launchEAW.exe. For profiler mode, dynamic extended scan didn't work for me, so I tried Standard mode and it worked. Every so often, when I try to load the profile, it asks for the cd -- but then I disable the profile and try again and it loads the game up fine.

EDIT: Oh, and I have alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools installed with a virtual drive enabled and neither program is causing me a problem with Game Jackal loading Empire at War.

Cornellian - i had exactley teh same problem but then i changed my virtual drive (f) to the d:/ drive and it has worked every time now:D

using deamon with curerom latest update with eaw on update 1.2

hi kid_t, how do you change the letter of the DT's drive to D? Can you help me on that?
I mean changing it to D while I still have a dvd drive on D..
Thanks...

hi err you can't have both on the letter d i followed the instructions on teh website bellow and changed my dvd drive to f and my image drive to d

http://support.microsoft.com/default...22120121120120

Hey all. I have read the whole thread now and it seems I have a different problem than all of you..

I installed the cd version and when trying to start, it tells mit the sweaw file is missing and indeed I cant find it in the gamedate folder...

How is that? what am I doing wrong?

reinstall the game and it should be there:)
maybe you accidentally deleted it or something:D

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Where can i find the mini-image?
Someone know a link?

Sorry about my english, i´m brazillian