- #MAKING THE SIMS 2 CRACK WORK ON WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#
- #MAKING THE SIMS 2 CRACK WORK ON WINDOWS 10 UPDATE#
- #MAKING THE SIMS 2 CRACK WORK ON WINDOWS 10 DRIVER#
This will make your Windows PC less secure, and it shouldn’t work on Windows 10, where the driver has been completely removed. Microsoft provides instructions for enabling it automatically at boot using both commands and the registry, too. (Open the Start menu, search for “Command Prompt,” right-click the Command Prompt shortcut, and select Run as Administrator.) Run the “sc start secdrv” command to start the service, and run the “sc stop secdrv” command to stop it afterwards.
To do this, open a Command Prompt window as Administrator.
#MAKING THE SIMS 2 CRACK WORK ON WINDOWS 10 DRIVER#
Re-enable the secdrv service on Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 8.1: If you’re not using Windows 10, Microsoft provides instructions for reenabling the secdrv.sys driver they disabled with the recent security updates. There are quite a few different options you can use: That’s cold comfort if you have an old, disc-based game that no longer functions on current versions of Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or 10. Microsoft is doing something good by blocking them, although - in an ideal world - Microsoft should have put a stop to these techniques instead of allowing them in the first place. Ultimately, these DRM schemes are bad for Windows systems and have been a source of security problems in the past. Thanks to Rock Paper Shotgun for translating these statements, which were originally made in German. We don’t know if that’s still possible with Windows 10 or if they simply didn’t care about it.” Microsoft should have migrated the existing software since Windows 8. “Safedisc DRM hasn’t been supported for a few years now, and the driver has consequently not been updated for some time. Rovi, the creators of SafeDisc, lashed out at Microsoft in response: Copy the files from inside the downloaded zip and folder to 'c:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2' and confirm to override the files already there.
#MAKING THE SIMS 2 CRACK WORK ON WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#
There are a couple of patches from developers already, and there is stuff like GOG where you’ll find versions of those games that work.” Install the Sims 2 normally from disc as an 'Advanced User' to the directory of c:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2. We can just not support that if it’s a possible danger for our users. that simply don’t run without a no-CD patch or some such. “This DRM stuff is also deeply embedded in your system, and that’s where Windows 10 says “sorry, we cannot allow that, because that would be a possible loophole for computer viruses.” That’s why there are a couple of games from 2003-2008 with Securom, etc. Microsoft purposefully broke compatibility with these old DRM, as they explain:
#MAKING THE SIMS 2 CRACK WORK ON WINDOWS 10 UPDATE#
This includes every version of Windows 10, and Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 with update KB3086255, released in September 2015. Xeon E5 v3 - 12 x 3.All games using SafeDisc DRM and games using some forms of SecuROM DRM just won’t work on modern versions of Windows.So my physical disc can't be read and the game won't see my ISO rip of that disc. To my horror, when I tried to insert the physical disc (thankfully I have a Blu-Ray Drive on this computer), it couldn't be read it seems that it's too scratched over time. The installation went great, even accepting the code I still had on my physical box! However, when I went to play it (keeping the virtual disc in the virtual D: drive), it gave me this error: Today, I tried to re-install The Sims 2 Special DVD Edition on my new computer using these ISOs. A couple years ago, when I realized that my future computers might not have disc drives (and The Sims 1 and 2 aren't sold digitally), I ripped all these to ISO files so I could continue to play them. I've been buying and playing The Sims games since the early 2000s.
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