Titan Quest (Use this thread only! Do not start another Thread!)

[BarryB]

About time pubs/devs woke up and got rid of the protection, now we'll know if it was the securom or crappy coding that was causing problems

If you want to make a NoDVD for the v1.20 patch, just Hex Edit the following byte in the Titan Quest.exe:

Offset 0x000089A7 change byte 74 to EB

Alternatively, search for byte pattern 74 7F FF and change the first byte to EB so it reads EB 7F FF!

[Nightmare]

I can't start the game because of the engine.dll.

It also happens with the original.
Does anybody know a solution??

P.S.: I know this isn't a backup-problem

Greets

[TippeX]

Originally Posted by BarryB

If you want to make a NoDVD for the v1.20 patch, just Hex Edit the following byte in the Titan Quest.exe:

Offset 0x000089A7 change byte 74 to EB

Alternatively, search for byte pattern 74 7F FF and change the first byte to EB so it reads EB 7F FF!

patch the PROC not the conditional, it might be called somewhere else later on, and you'll have missed it...

[BarryB]

[whispers]Don't know how to do that[/whispers]

We are talking 'me' here you know, not some uber cracker I'm not a proper reverser you know, just a 'conditional' one

If it doesn't work i'm sure someone will pipe up, I've been playing for 4 hours now from thes start and no problems yet, no crashes or weird things happening. Time will tell though!

[Joe Forster/STA]

What TippeX is saying that, instead of changing the call to the CD check:

call CDCheck
test eax, eax
jne OK => jmp OK
notOK:
[...]

destroy the CD check by making it always return a TRUE value:

CDCheck:
[...]
=>
xor eax, eax
inc eax
retn

or something similar. This way, all calls to CDCheck will get a TRUE value, not only those calls that you actually found. Good luck!

[BarryB]

I understood what he meant, not how to do it Joe

I found the place where it does the usual GetDriveTypeA checks etc, except there is nothing calling this routine, so couldn't find where it was being referenced from, that's where I got stuck with that! I also had to use IDA, instead of lame but friendly w32dasm as it kept crashing it when loading the exe in, obviously some anti-disasm tricks!

In the end I patched the message as a last resort, it worked, but as TippeX says, for how long?

[BoBBeatzen]

Hey everyone...

I have a problem with patching the game to 1.2, I always get an unknown error.
Until 1.15 there was no prob, I can't find out whats missing so it would be kind if anyone could help.

My system is a bit old but game's runing nice with 1.15 here's a little list:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
1024 Ram
Geforce 5700

Thx and bye
BoB

[GLH]

What error-message do you get exactly?