[geeks] [rescue] Video card request

[Gary Goddard]

Doom3 was the same on my pc so i took it back and got a refund!!

Yet quake 4 by the same people, same protection runs fine!



Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:35:43AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
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>>It won't play at all on my Athlon64-system, apparently because SafeDisc4
>>is in denial about the existence of an optical drive in my system.  It's
>>a perfectly good NEC ND-3520AW, but no SafeDisc4-protected game will
>>play on it.  I'd like to go kick these copy-protection idiots in the
>>nuts; not only are they preventing legitimate buyers from playing their
>>games, they're *forcing people* to use hacks and cracks and pirated
>>versions, and they're too damn stupid to see it.
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>That's what killed the Amiga IMHO. The games were great, but they were
>so heavily compressed that it took forever to load them from a floppy.
>One, "The Killing Game Show" by Psygnosis was a great game, but it took
>10 minutes to load. 
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>It was also so heavily copy protected that the floppies went bad after
>playing it a few times, so you HAD to make "backup" copies or loose your
>investment ($50). 
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>I just decided that if I had to pirate the game, or make "nibbled" copies
>of it just to play it, it was not worthy of my money. So I stopped buying
>their games for both the Amiga and PC.
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>What totaly killed it for me was the day I got a hard disk for my
>Amiga 2000. I could load regular programs "instantly", but to load the
>games I had payed big bucks for, I had to find pirated versions without
>the copy protection. I then decided it was not work it to me at all....
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>Geoff.
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