

You end up paying more attention to the people aiming to get it for free that you end up screwing the guy that's putting a roof over your head. That is a failure on your part, not on the part of your potential customers. Yep, that's how it's interpreted, and that's why you and other game companies are facing problems with your potential customers. If you can find a more secure drm, you will make more money from me" "I want this game, and I took it for free. It will be viewed as good as long as they "save" more money than it "costs" them. Ignorance and management fretting over money. Also, because not everybody's memory is so great, it becomes common practice to keep the 18 character passwords written on sticky notes. which goes over the wire plaintext encapsulated in an HTTP POST query. which is great except that when you go to do your timesheets you have to enter your LAN password. You know, you have to use a randomly generated 18 character alphanumeric password and it changes every 90 days. It's the same kind of security you run into in large corporations.

Your boss collapes on his desk in a deep sigh of relief, signs away several million dollars, and - blammo, SecuROM. So you call up Xyzzy company and tell your boss to pay them a lot of money and the problem goes away. Now, being an engineer you know that there's no way to keep a game from being copied, but your boss is frothing at the mouth and pseudo-geek talk is coming out of his mouth while he runs through the office with a stack of trade magazines - so you have to do something. Let's say your an engineer and your manager comes to you and says "zomg! piratez! they r eatin ma soupz!" And being that you're the guy they're paying the big bucks to impliment features, it falls to you to stop people from "pirating". '' Fout'' is a Dutch word and it means error in English.I think people may be missing the human side of the problem. NET Framework 3.5 but at the end of the setup it says: Fout in setup. ( BTW: After I re-installed my game, I was able run the game with GTAIV.exe and if I update my game to patch 1.0.7.0 and launch the game with LaunchGTAIV.exe as an administrator or just normal it gives me the ''SecuROM Launcher has stopped working'' error.Īnd I've tried to install. Update the game with the 1.0.7.0 patch from the Rockstar Games siteħ. Run LaunchGTAIV.exe as an AdministratorĦ. Re-installed VC++ libraries from the game diskĥ. Installed the Visual C++ 2005 Redistributableģ. If you want help, try to post more than just "it doesn't work"Ģ. And why don't you answer the questions I asked you? When you say it "doesn't work" can you tell me that you tried each and every solution I told you? I suggested you more than 10 solutions, yet none of them work.
