Imperial Glory ...unknown protection...

[bjornmmcc]

Why would you buy a game on DVD if you don't have a DVD Drive?

I've heard this game is also available on 3 CD's. Why don't you take it back to the store and try and get that version?

[dadarkman]

Because he doesnt have it very legal (there is only a illegal dvd version)

[bjornmmcc]

Yeah, I figured that. I was trying to give him enough rope to hang himself.

[riclnh]

anyone get message it would expire in 3 days? after installed noCD from Securom?

[bjornmmcc]

Yes. I just got that after having it installed for one day. Have to wait and see what happens in 3 more days.

I find it quite fishy that this nag screen comes up a day later.

Hopefully someone can use this file to make a real No-DVD patch that doesn't have a time limit.

[baza72]

hi everybody this is my first post on the forums but hopefully a useful one

i too get the 3day expiry, rather than waiting 3 days i changed my time settings on windows to june and now get the following message "Sorry, but license data has expired, Please contact the software provider to update the software or extend the license" and needless to say the game don't work

however popped my clock back to present day and get 3 day message again, maybe every time i want to play the game i'll just put my clock back to the day i installed it.

does anyone else think this likely to work?

[noscript]

eidos released an unprotected exe for those who have copy protection problems.

[bjornmmcc]

I believe that we are talking about the same file here. The link I gave was to the one from Eidos, and it has a time limit.

[TheRealBandit]

Originally Posted by baza72

hi everybody this is my first post on the forums but hopefully a useful one

i too get the 3day expiry, rather than waiting 3 days i changed my time settings on windows to june and now get the following message "Sorry, but license data has expired, Please contact the software provider to update the software or extend the license" and needless to say the game don't work

however popped my clock back to present day and get 3 day message again, maybe every time i want to play the game i'll just put my clock back to the day i installed it.

does anyone else think this likely to work?

@ bjornmmcc
I´ve read your posts in the megagamesforum

Sorry, for my english, but I´ll try my best.
I changed my time settings on windows to the 4th of jun.
Now I get the same message (License...).
Then I put the clock back to today.I get the same message.
Than I unistall the game after that I dowload the (secur...patch)
replace this file to the gamedir and now I don´t get the message (3days) ,
I get the same message before I uninstall.

Than I install the first time the game on my notebook and use the same patch.
There I get the (3 day message)

I also hope there will come a real nocd patch

[bjornmmcc]

GameCopyWorld has now hosted the Eidos No-DVD patch, but it's nuked. Here is a copy of the email I sent GCW:

"The older No-DVD patch from Eidos for Imperial Glory had a time bomb in it and it will expire on Wednesday June 1st.

The one that is available direct from the SecuROM website has been changed and not only has copy protection, but has been altered to detect working DVD copies that had been working before.

In other words, I was able to make a working backup on DVD of Imperial Glory (1.0 US) that I bought. I had to have the disk in the drive, but at least my original was safe. I then saw on the Eidos forum (last Friday?) that they had a No-DVD patch for people who were having problems with the copy protection when the original disk was in the drive. I used this and it seemed to work great, until Sunday May 29. At that point a nag screen would appear informing me that "This license will expire in 3 days." The game will still run after this screen. I set my PC clock ahead and the license has indeed expired and the game no longer runs.

I re-downloaded the No-DVD patch from SecuROM today and now it says that it cannot find the Disk in the drive and it will not run. This happens with my backup disk and with no disk in drive. But it does run fine with the original disk.

So I went back to my original ImperialGlory.exe (which I had saved) and now it gives me the same error as the new No-DVD patch from SecuROM. So obviously this so-called patch has altered other game files to prevent people from using their backup disk.

From my own research I have found that a group called HOODLUM has apparently made a real No-DVD crack. I saw the NFO for it at http://XXX.XXXXXX.XXX I haven't tried it because I have no idea how (or desire) to download warez. However, I thought you might be interested in looking into this.

I hope this information is of some value to you."



EDIT: Ooops...what month is it?

[GLH]

A new proper NoDVD crack by HOODLUM is already send to GameCopyWorld and will be available soon.

(I haven't tested it, because i don't have the game!)

[bjornmmcc]

Thanks for the info. It's up at GCW and appears to function as advertised.

[huntley]

Some posts above implied that there was no legal DVD version, this is not true, my UK version (from Play.com) came on a single DVD.

The recent history of this game, with multiple exe's being released is very interesting. But more interesting still would be a proper working no-DVD.

Edit: NB the hoodlum crack at first appears broken in battle mode, with the mouse refusing to scroll the battle camera. But holding down the LMB and moving the cursor to the edge of the screen "releases" it, thereafter all is well. Great Job Hoodlum !!!

[dadarkman]

Yep same problem here with the mouse

[voltox5]

help me, please.