Fear 1.04 nocd exe works with 1.05 patch!

[adrift02]

After so many problems with curerom i thought i would try the 1.04 nocd exe with the new update. Sure enough it works! Multiplayer and all! So much for the new securerom update lol. Enjoy.

Hi,
do you have all updates after that?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Have you checked whether the main executable remains the same between the updates? Because, if the 1.05 update introduces a new main executable and you overwrite it with the cracked main executable for update 1.04, be prepared for random crashes and weird behavior throughout the game!

[adrift02]

Ya I thought of that, but I played a multiplayer game and everything was fine. The reason I thought it would work in the first place is the default.archcfg seems to define the version not the exe. For instance, you can replace the 1.05 default.archcfg with the 1.04 and play version 1.04 again just fine. I will do some testing today and play a lot more. But so far so good.

[AndyMutz]

the FEAR 1.05 patch changes the exe and while it's possible that the cracked 1.04 exe still works fine, i would rather use the mini image, just to be sure.

-andy-

[Joe Forster/STA]

What matters is whether those files, that are replaced by the crack for version 1.04, have been changed between versions 1.04 and 1.05. If so, the crack for version 1.04 may become unstable with the rest of version 1.05.

And playing with the game for a few minutes or hours on a single PC might not make the problems obvious either, only: after a longer time, at other parts of the game, with other settings, on another PC (hardware, software) etc.... Therefore, checking the file differences is much easier, which is why I recommended that.