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SecuROM wont let me play Fallout 3 says wrong disk inserted.

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I'm going to but in on this lil "crap war"
Theirs been a lot of issues with securom even from non "crap" dvd drives(nice choice of words :laugh:), a pretty unfair diagnosis with some extra emotion thrown in. It could have been much easier to say "I think you should just get a new dvd /rw drive you can get one on newegg for 22 shipped."(Which is a true fact) From someone with 5k posts you would figure you would know how to help better than what you just did. Quality over quantity. I'm no moderator, I'm not even staff anymore, but grow up man.


At Nick89 glad you got it working man!

He didn't ask for help, he started the tone of the topic, and I stuck with that tone. This wasn't a topic asking for help, look in his first post, not a single ask for help. He started the topic with no other purpose other than to bash SecuROM and rant about how bad it is, when it is likely not the root cause of the problem.

But there is no real point in going on with this anymore, the problem has been fixed, the topic can die.
 
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I have no plans to buy any game that has securom in it. I recently had to resintall windows again(few days ago) because i got rid of securom, and i couldn't get back to my desktop, neither was safe mode working.

EA is really a lame company now, they are making things worse, not better.
 
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Why is everyone saying this is a optical drive problem? I had the same issue with Football Manager 2008 when I upgraded to vista. I called secuRom and they sent me a download file that fixed the problem. As long as you can quote the media serial number, on the inner ring of the disc, they help you out.!!!!
 
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I decided to go through steam for games that have problems like this. I'd prefer to have a solid copy (Even though I tend to lose them) to decorate my media shelf with, but this seems to be a problem for quite a few people. :\

Now that you got it installed, quick patch it and get a no-cd crack. XD
 
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I decided to go through steam for games that have problems like this. I'd prefer to have a solid copy (Even though I tend to lose them) to decorate my media shelf with, but this seems to be a problem for quite a few people. :\

Now that you got it installed, quick patch it and get a no-cd crack. XD

I've always fancied a download engnie for games but a friend said you can't back them up to CD/DVD. What if I need to re-install windows?
 
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I've always fancied a download engnie for games but a friend said you can't back them up to CD/DVD. What if I need to re-install windows?

They save info about your account. You can just redownload the stuff. Backup your saves and you're fine. :p

Sorry. I made us go off-topic. XD
 
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My fault, thanks zithe for the info though!! Back to MMORPGs!!!!

(any truth behind the rumor of Oblivion going MMO??)
 
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My fault, thanks zithe for the info though!! Back to MMORPGs!!!!

(any truth behind the rumor of Oblivion going MMO??)

Someone tried to make a mod and it failed miserably. As for an official release, I doubt it. It's going to hit its third birthday this year, right? They would have to add a lot of content to the game for online play and it's not worth the trouble.
 
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