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

[chron]

Seems that this is some kind of a loader and the files in asxdox dir are dvd copy protection information.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Actually, the files in the "_asxdox" subdirectory seem to be small chunks of a cracked executable... A very innovative way of cracking, if I may add...!

[TippeX]

hmm let me be the first to say this crack is shit heh
basically the code loads up, then virtualalloc's memory blocks
(with NO handling for failure... just a lame 'memory error' messagebox), then reads the file data into them
the dumped data is not dvd data as chron states, its basically
a dump of memory (virtualalloc hooked?) which they then reload again

needless to say if the virtualalloc fails (as they try and get the address on the same base as the dumped it from... which simply wont work on some pc's.. dll's might be loaded there etc..) then the entire thing will crash when that code is called...

the filenames of the files are the virtual memory address they were dumped from
and theres a lot of 00's which the cracker could have trimmed making the crack smaller, as virtualalloc'd memory is automatically zerofilled to begin with...

oh yeh and the data has the users environment dumped.. administrator... computer name flf, does noone even bother to crack properly anymore?

simple loader, injection approach... flawed

innovative... hardly, did you actually analyse it joe?.. its dumped vm fragments amongst other things...

[chron]

I do not have the knowledge to figure out how this crack works so I just assumed what it is.

But to assume it is a loader was not wrong at all

Thx for extending my knowledge TippeX.

[Vortaka]

And so what TippeX? I mean... how should I/we care about the way it is done? It works and to the 8 hours of play I did, never crashed, bugged or hanged even once...

Even if it is not an innovation or even a new trick hackers do, it still does the job, no?

And, just for the record, the file size of those junky memory blocks (with the addition of the v1.15 executable) is about equal to the file size of the hacked executable for v1.08. I'm not a hacker but could it be possible that it was the exact same thing that was done before but instead of putting it in files, it was putted in the executable? Just a guess!

Anyway... Just to let who ever reads this to know that this hack works flawlessly... for me anyway! (And after testing all other methods: W2K compatibility, mini image, Curerom, Aika, asr and mixed of those methods; none of them worked, I really appreciate the guy/guys who did this!). Way a go!

Vortaka

"If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything", George and Marty Mcfly - Back to the Future...

[TippeX]

well some of the data is indeed injected into the exe, as for it working, its debatable, try loading a dll into one of the addresses.. wont work.. you'll get a nice little messagebox, its poorly coded 'shell code' style crack

does the job, maybe for some, maybe not for others, and its hardly 'clean'm, the size of the data added together doesn't really matter, if the game shows 1.15 etc then i guess it is, but simply copying the code from 1.08 to 1.15 is very unlikely to work... so yeh, if you aren't a hacker then you shouldnt make baseless guesses..

as for explaining how it works, some people are probably interested in it.. and actually im surprised it hasnt given off a virus warning for someone...

works for you.. great, super happy for you.. lets see if it works for others

[Joe Forster/STA]

Oh, I haven't analyzed it at all, today's copy protections are way beyond me... But, yes, the environment variables were pretty weird. Oh well, I don't like such hacks either but end users won't give a damn anyway IF it works...

[juergen]

@ Tippex

just read the posts from all users, made after misterxzibit releases the thing with the exe in it.
You will see it works for everybody. For me as well.
There is no negative post.

So why all the critics from you ?
Even if the crack would be a Basic64 language or a handwritten paper or whatever. ;o)
Man it works !! Thats what counts for all the guys here in the forum.
Accept it and enjoy. Leave the criticizes to the politicians...

To round up the thing (cause the readme file is missing in misterxzibits rar file):
Leave the 283 funny files in the _asxdox directory and put the directory together with the titanquest.exe in your titanquest game folder. Thats it.

Hav fun with your game.
Juergen

[chron]

@juergen: that's exactly what joe said

[daffyduck]

If you don't like the crack by aSxDOX don't use it. You have you original DVD, right? Else, why don't you crack it and provide a nocd ?

So use your original DVD or stop complaining. aSxDOX crack works great

[kakkabomb]

Hi there

I have tried this on two seperate workstations.

I get the same error

"memory error, program exit"

I install TQ
Update with patch provided from aSxDOX
Copy file into games directory and cracked .exe
I try load the game and get the same error on both worstations.

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks for any help

[Nightmare]

@TippeX: Make your own crack and post it here!

Greets

[Vortaka]

Originally Posted by kakkabomb

Hi there
I have tried this on two seperate workstations.
I get the same error
"memory error, program exit"
I install TQ
Update with patch provided from aSxDOX
Copy file into games directory and cracked .exe
I try load the game and get the same error on both worstations.
What am i doing wrong?
Thanks for any help

Easy enough (had the same problem though!).
Just copy all the junk files in their proper folder (I think it's "_asx" or something like that) (in your Titan Quest folder). They should already be in their folder in the rar file just copy the "folder" instead of the files! Hope this works!

(If not, just pm me... Had the problem so I understand exactly!)

Vortaka

P.S. The right folder is "_asxdox"... Have fun!

[Ch@os_D]

Originally Posted by kakkabomb

Hi there

I have tried this on two seperate workstations.

I get the same error

"memory error, program exit"

I install TQ
Update with patch provided from aSxDOX
Copy file into games directory and cracked .exe
I try load the game and get the same error on both worstations.

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks for any help

Had the same problem. I only deactivated the win98 compatibility mode (which I activated for well known reasons ^^) in the .exe and now it works fine.

[TippeX]

im criticising it because it could have been better done, some of the other secu cracks are 'clean', this one is messy, and has the potential to fail (its failed for others.. ) simply because of the way it handles the memory