The troubles continue...

[strangetomato]

So things continued to work just fine with adding the EPs and SPs back in, until I arrived at Bon Voyage. This would be where SecuROM first made an appearance, so wanting to avoid that whole mess, I have switched to running the game with a no-cd crack. And here seems to be where my problems lie. It won't run. I get the same message as seen in this post. I tried running it with FT, AL, and M&G Stuff as the most recent EP, all with the same result. This seems to somehow be the issue, but what exactly is going wrong?

I have updated my graphics card drivers, made sure I have the latest full DirectX9.0c Redistributable installed, as directed by several tech support forums for this exact issue (DirectX9 incompatibility), but none of those things seemed to help. I am also running Sims 3 with a no-cd crack with no issues. I'm even using the same cracks I had on my old computer, which worked just fine then. *sigh*

If anyone has any ideas on what's going wrong here, I'd love to hear them. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[so-goshable.livejournal.com]

Maybe the file got corrupted. Have you tried redownloading it? I use a fixed EXE crack by RELOADED on Win 7, and so far that hasn't given me any problems. *knocks on wood* I've had the DX9 error before on Vista, even though I run DX10. I forget what the problem was, but it was easily fixable. Thinking back, this may have been when I got a new graphics card.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That sounds worth a shot. It wouldn't hurt to try another download. I sure hope this ends up being an easy fix. Thanks for the input!