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Originally Posted by Kanalradde
That you have to be logged is as admin is not nice but in the end not the fault of MONEY but the one of Macrovision (manufacturer of SafeDisc) and EA (who chose that protection): click |
There's more to it than that, though. There's an internal check done by the game itself -- not SafeDisc 3 -- that verifies the environment under which it is running. If it doesn't have full Administrator rights, it aborts with an error. This occurs even on the broken "build mode absent" cracks that disable SafeDisc. This check does not occur, however, if I run the game in Windows 98/Me compatability mode, meaning that I can still run the game without full Admin rights when using one of the previous broken cracks. The new MONEY crack, however, somehow disables this workaround, causing the executable to check the user environment even if I run in the requested compatability mode.
This makes me wonder how the crack would work under a real Win98/Me setup. Anyone tried that yet?
Also, I understand that Doom 3 uses SafeDisc 3 protection as well, but it does not require full Administrator rights to run. Can anyone confirm this?