Official Sims 2 Thread

[Dimensio]

I'm getting really irritated with the lack of a proper crack.

The Alcohol 120%/Daemon Tools solution isn't a proper fix for me, because it does not truly disable SafeDisc. The problem that I have is that SafeDisc requires full Administrative rights, which means that I have to run the game while logged in as a system Adminstrator. I will NOT sacrifice system security just to run a damned game. If I can't run a game under my normal Power Users account, then the game is, as far as I am concerned, defective because there is absolutely no justifiable reason for any game to require full Administrative rights. Unfortunatley, it looks like the crack groups have been satisfied with the micro-image "solution" because it does bypass the need to have the CD in the drive, but unless there is a way to keep it from requiring full Administrative rights at all, it is not a solution for me (and I did try opening up access rights to Power Users under the Daemon Tools dll files, that doesn't seem to make any difference).

Any chance of a proper crack that strips the SafeDisc check completely without breaking game functions?

[Snoggi88]

I think no, but...

Right Click on the Sims2 link --> Click on "Start as...". There you can start the game with adminstrator rights. The rights are only on the Sims2-game. the rest is normal!

[Dimensio]

Originally Posted by Snoggi88

I think no, but...

Right Click on the Sims2 link --> Click on "Start as...". There you can start the game with adminstrator rights. The rights are only on the Sims2-game. the rest is normal!

This still involves running the game with full Administrative rights. If I thought that were a viable solution, I wouldn't be bitching here.

No game needs Administrative access to run. Thief III imposed such a requirement by deleting all of its system files when a non-Admin ran the game, but it was easily circumvented by disabling write access to those files, after which the game would run without any problems whatsoever, showing that the "Administrator access required" imposition was nothing but programmer malice.

The Sims 2 seems to do a check on WinXP/2k systems and returns an "Unspecificed Error" when a non-Admin user tries to run it. This can be circumvented by running the executable with Windows 98/ME compatability. Unfortuntely, SafeDisc is too badly coded to work without Admin rights, so I need an executable without SafeDisc in it at all to be able to play the game properly.

[smilio13]

does anybody know what i do when i mount 'Sims2_1_RIP.MDS' . i am using DAEMON v3.47 and when i mount it, all these files automatically appear. does anybody know if i am meant to open a file from the virtual drive or a file in my 'program files>sims2' folder. im pretty sure ive tried everything.