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headache with securom

Post Date: 2015-10-14
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funeralpyre88 View Drop Down
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    Posted: 14 Oct 2015 at 10:38am
OK now I am pissed off. First it was Dawn of War that would not work, now it is Bioshock 1. When I'm about to click finish in the Bioshock installer a Securom error message appears, telling me I should try updating my BIOS drivers or something like that.
I think this Securom problem might be an issue only with games that I install from the disk, and not Steam. Can anyone confirm?

I do not want to have to buy Bioshock from Steam AGAIN, SEEING AS I ALREADY ****ing own the game on disk, and I should be able to play it!

I have Windows 8 and all my drivers for everything on my computer are updated, so I know thats not the problem.
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Posts: 20391 		  Quote bprat22 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 14 Oct 2015 at 11:44am
I remember reading that it was only securom games on disc between 2001 and 2008 that just wouldn't work with Windows 7,8 and 10. There is a securom removal tool. Google it and see if it helps. I have never used it so user beware.

Buying a digital version was one fix but who wants to buy again.
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Posts: 170 		  Quote funeralpyre88 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 14 Oct 2015 at 5:33pm
i wonder if there is a way to tell Steam that I already bought a physical copy of the game (for example, some code on the game box that I can type in somewhere, so Steam will let me download the game digitally without having to pay), or would that not be possible, because Steam wouldn't care if I bought the game CD from amazon.com 6 years ago?

Anywho, I think i'll just be buying it on Steam, $20 won't be too much. I have a Bioshock Infinite CD copy, hopefully that will work fine, that was made after 2008.
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Predator 360 cpu&gpu
16 GB DDR4@2800 MHz
ASUS Z-170 PRO GAMING
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GTX 980 TI ASUS STRIX
ACER XB270HU 2560x1440 @144 hz
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