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

[krolowa-francji.livejournal.com]

I would recommend downloading the megapack. You bought the games, so I don't see anything worng with downloading a version that WORKS,especially is EA support can't help you. It has all the games & SPs packed into one .iso, it doesn't require license keys and the cd, and it installs everything in one go, instead of having you switch cds 20 times. I really recommend it, it's such a convenience.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware that such a thing existed. I have things running right now, but that sounds like it would be very convenient if I ever need to uninstall and reinstall again. Is it SecuROM free?

Thank you for letting me know about that. :)