Drayu
07-13-2005, 10:55 AM
I don't know if this is my problem b/c I do run Alcohol120, but I will be reinstalling my OS b/c of bad beta drivers and I will be able to tell hopefully....here is what I copied from another forum:
Next time you drop to the desktop (Alt-Tab) leaving BF2 running in the background do please take the time to check out this...
Bring up Windows Task Manager (Alt-Ctrl-Del) and scroll down.
Do you see it?
~e5.0001
I checked it out on the net and, what do you know... its a recognised piece of malicious code. Not a virus mind you. Viruses are written by nasty disgruntled nerds, not serious computer programmers employed by professional software houses.
So what does it do?
It is checking for the presence of NoCD cracks and patches. And when it finds one it ties up system resources making the game run progressively slower.
Thinks... Unique 20 character keycode installation protection, level 4 secureROM copy protection, online registration with valid email address, punkbusted, inability to cause character advance without lengthy online play, specifically on ranked (EA controlled) servers... AND a patch protection subroutine!!!
Phuk me but if they had put half this effort into the actual game there would not now be thousands of people wandering aimlessly around various forums praying for an official patch.
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Next time you drop to the desktop (Alt-Tab) leaving BF2 running in the background do please take the time to check out this...
Bring up Windows Task Manager (Alt-Ctrl-Del) and scroll down.
Do you see it?
~e5.0001
I checked it out on the net and, what do you know... its a recognised piece of malicious code. Not a virus mind you. Viruses are written by nasty disgruntled nerds, not serious computer programmers employed by professional software houses.
So what does it do?
It is checking for the presence of NoCD cracks and patches. And when it finds one it ties up system resources making the game run progressively slower.
Thinks... Unique 20 character keycode installation protection, level 4 secureROM copy protection, online registration with valid email address, punkbusted, inability to cause character advance without lengthy online play, specifically on ranked (EA controlled) servers... AND a patch protection subroutine!!!
Phuk me but if they had put half this effort into the actual game there would not now be thousands of people wandering aimlessly around various forums praying for an official patch.
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