What does fading look like? Can't tell if I have this too.

The 1.01 final crack definitely is infected with Vundo, it's not a false positive.

On the drive you run the crack from, Vundo inserts itself into a system restore folder, something like C:\System Volume Information\_restore{4A4E4080-6E05-458C-84DE-1146C64302AB}\RP754

AVG shows Vundo also, but not sure on other AV's virustotal seems wont accept files over 15mb.

@Smork:

After you have played for maybe...10 minutes, the bohemia and Arma 2 logo will suddenly appear. then your hole screen begins to move, I can`t explain in english, it looks like heat haze.

thats it.

it seems that Genesis's developers gave up ..... nothing new ..... no update about mini image way?? i heard that it worked on certain motherboards chipsets (P45)

just wait there has been a new FIXED mds file uploaded to gamecopyworld that works
they will post it as soon as its been checked.

Are you saying your MDS file works where the existing one fails ? :confused:
I doubt that ;)

Has worked for a few, apparently but some people still said it didn't work for them.

thanks newt', It DOES work for XP-32bit but have NOT tested it on Vista or Win7 32/64 YET. ALL i do know is that it works fine for me, where all other methods did not.

I'm a little bit confused as you quote in another forum:

Which one is it? For some reason, I keep getting with version 1.02:

A required security module cannot be activated.
This program cannot be executed (5023).

It can detect YASU. It looks like we may need some obscure hiding software or hiding software for the hiding software. Without YASU, it detects DTools.

And the new MDS doesn't work with the end task method, either. It detects DTools again. It would be nice to know exactly what YASU does so perhaps I can do it manually without running YASU.

Burn the images to a dual-layer disc using the latest Alcohol with RMPS ticked. When I say 'images', I mean the full .mds/.mds of the game which contains physical media information. Then make sure RMPS emulation is enabled in alcohol's preferences. Unmount any images you might have in DT, then play! Works for me, when emulation using images + YASU/DTE fails.

Well, I have some DL DVDs on the way. Don't have any now. Are you sure Securom doesn't detect Alcohol when it's emulating RMPS? Because it catches it when it's mounting an image. I also know this trick worked very well for making a working copy of a Starforce game, but for some reason only worked when you put the disc into a USB DVD reader.

Sorry I have not gone thru the whole thread yet, but has anyone gotten the "mini" images on GCW to work ok with 1.02?

Thankx

The problem doesn't appear to be with the mini-image, but with the emulator being blacklisted. The tool that hides the emulator is also blacklisted. So, even if the image is perfect and totally workable, the emulator gets detected and it doesn't matter if the image is correct at that point. Right now, you're only hope of avoiding damage to your DVD is by making an identical copy with Alcohol 120 on a DVD+R DL and then running it with Alcohol's RMPS emulation enabled. That appears to work for some people.

You could also wait for a crack, but that just disables Securom. The crack can still check other things and will activate FADE, which is another tool they use to screw with your ability to copy the game.

Apparently, FADE is really difficult to isolate and disable since they can insert many custom triggers and it's difficult to know when you stopped it.

Your best bet is duplicating your disc as stated above. If that works, then you pretty much ran the game by tricking it into thinking you have the real disc inserted. If they knew it wasn't the real disc, it would stop right there. But since it does think it's the real CD, it launches the game. At that point, nothing else is changed (EXEs are the same), so it should, in theory, work.

Don't mess with any virtual drives. That's where the slip-up will occur. SecuROM won't mind if you have virtual drives, just so long as nothing is mounted on them. And yes I am 'sure' that the latest SecuROM versions will not play up because of RMPS on the latest version of alcohol. Just use decent quality media, a good burner and a good image source.

I get a 'unrecognised file format for recording !' when i try to burn the MDS file in Alcohol ?

You're probably trying to burn the mini-image, and that's not what I meant... the method I describe is for doing the CLONE-DVD images for games that crop up.

I'm trying to burn the MDS file that came with the MDF file (7.67gb), i haven't downloaded a mini image.

Ok. Latest version of Alcohol? That's the only thing I can think is different, as I did it the same way.

I think Alcohol recently changed their MDS format so this could happen if your MDS file is older. The method does work, though. The game launches, but unfortunately, it only appears to work from the drive in which the burning occurred. No word on FADE yet as I haven't tested it out.

That's because of a bad burn, bad drive or bad media (or a combination of that). It's not uncommon to be able to read only on the drive a burn was made on. Or even not been able to read on the burn-drive, but have it reading on a second one. Strange but true. And it's not because of the game or the SecuROM, it's because that's the only drive that can read the disc properly :)

I have the same problem with "Unrecognized file format" in Alcohol 120% while trying to burn complete mds/mdf image. I have Alcohol v1.9.8.7612. Can you describe in more detail how have you burnt the image? What image, which version of Alcohol? Can it be that mds/mdf image was created by DaemonTools, so Alcohol does not recognize it?

That version, yup. All I think of is that your image must be corrupt in some way.

You can try installing from the MDF you made (mount it). If it works, then the MDF is not the problem, the MDS is. You could try making that again or getting it somehow (it's very small usually).

Hey Psych whats the deal with GH? Someone have an argument or something?

Got it mounted with Daemon Tools instead.

I have no idea man. Out of my control completely.

*EDIT* Back up again :p...

The problem was that i have an image created by new DT. They changed their mds format for some reasons. It is now incompatible with Alcohol recording feature. You can still mount it with Alcohol though. I have got another mds file, created with Alcohol I think. I have combined it with my mdf, burnt it to DL disk and it works that way! :) I have not managed to install the game from the disk :confused:, installed from mounted image, but DRM works with this disk.

Shouldn't you know best how your image was created ? :(
And why haven't you created an image with Alcohol right from the start ?

He never said he created an image!

He said "I'm trying to burn the MDS file that came with the MDF file (7.67gb)"

did it came by mail? or did it came with the rest of your game downloads in a RAR file? Most people that create their own images know where their files are coming from. mostly because they named them themselves.

Elementary, my Dear Watson ;)

I had the game run for a while with the GCW fixed image with the latest YASU.

I made the whole campaign without FADE triggered.


But I tried to fire the game today and securom just throw me the emulation software detected error.

I just don't know what happened. This happened before when I put a USB
stick on the computer and I fixed the problem by just removing the stick.

But now it doesn't work anymore. Maybe it have to do with my latest hardware change? I added another harddrive and I change my cpu to a quad core. Even that I'm confused because right when I installed the new cpu I tested the game and it ran fine.

gnuh, weird.

I underclocked my computer (was overclocked) and rebooted, now it work again.

*shrug*

Is there a working way to play the game with the recently released patch 1.03 ? Didn't tried it at all but I'd like to play the game soon...

Why don't you try it yourself?

Well the 1.03 works with the 1.03 cracks, but FADE gets activated, accuracy of guns sucks, pistol won't hit anything.

I tried a complicated way with YASU, terminating it, disabling all other devices beside the virtual one and it did not work, neither with the miniimage from GCW or the big one.


I guess we have to wait until YASU gets updated so it won't get blacklisted by securom anymore, I think that ArmA2 updates also contain new versions of securom, so probably YASU will have to get updated every time...

Mhh, anyone there who can tell me where to inform myself about YASU (beside the hompage, more like intern forum thing where the developer is writing himself).

Thanks in advance!

well then you might want to buy the game and use a legit serial, then fade won't kick in... (fade is tied to your serial)...yasu info is on the daemon tools forum.. check that site, but it hasn't been updated (yasu) in a while due to syk0 having no inet, and he planned to release omen soon too... so there maybe a fix, sometime in the future.. but not right now...

ArmA-2 1.03 NoDVD RUS (5209 KB)

Has replaced STR_LANGUAGE_ITALIAN on STR_LANGUAGE_RUSSIAN and as everywhere Italian on Russian in EXE file.

The file is clean: http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/7...b85-1250168634