Dreamfall The Longest Journey - UK version has Starforce 3 - Help!

[martianrobot]

Help!

I just bought Dreamfall from UK store for £29.99 after returning another game that had Starforce 3 'protection'. I refuse to install any game that uses this as last time I installed a game (X3 Reunion) with this monstrosity of a protection system it destroyed my DVD-RW drive.

I thought I would be okay as the gamecopyworld website says that English versions of this game are protected by Securom and only the Russian version uses Starfarce.

However, after discovering that the fixed EXE's don't work, I found out that the version of Dreamfall I purchased uses Starforce with the build signature of 3.07.016.004, 02.05.06

I am gutted.

I always buy games and NEVER download pirated software, but I do like to play without the CD so always use no-cd hacks. Can anybody tell me any way around this horrendous protection system so I don't have to either (1) risk destroying another DVD-RW drive or (2) return this great game to the shop?

[cdkiller]

i think there´s a fix around (SecuROM crack + non sf3 crypted gamefiles), check gamecopyworld

[martianrobot]

Originally Posted by cdkiller

i think there´s a fix around (SecuROM crack + non sf3 crypted gamefiles), check gamecopyworld

I tried the various English fixes from there but none work - the runme.bat trys to patch files that don't exist, and the modified dreamfall.exe just crashes.

Contents of runme.bat:

@cd bin\res\
@ren common.pak common.bak
@ren init.pak init.bak
@patchit.exe common.bak common.pak
@patchit.exe init.bak init.pak
@del /q *.bak
@cd ..\..
@del /q runme.bat

common.pak and init.pak don't exist in my install folder

?

[GLH]

Originally Posted by martianrobot

common.pak and init.pak don't exist in my install folder

Not in the install folder. They are in the bin/res subfolder.

[acare84]

Buy the US version

[martianrobot]

Originally Posted by GLH

Not in the install folder. They are in the bin/res subfolder.

Er... yes, I know, I am not entirely stupid

Those files ain't in there. Honest. Must be certain versions in different countries that have those files.

Can't be bothered trying to deal with Starfarce or source the US version.... I'm gonna give up, take it back to the store and buy the legal digital download from www.funcom.com the developers - works out cheaper and the people who actually made it get all my money, instead of a death-dealing software publishing mega-corp

[Joe Forster/STA]

... and you'll have serious problems with playing your "digital download" version when you run out of activations and the publisher/developer is not available anymore (for purchasing further activations from)!