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Posted March 02, 2011
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jepsen1977: So Steam isn't perfect and apart from their sales, their prices are way too high for their own good but I generally like Steam.
Hey, me too. They're the first digital download store I found, when I joined around the end of '07. Also, according to my community page, I have 183 games. So yeah, I'm pretty familiar with their service. :/
Posted March 02, 2011
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Navagon: I've just re-downloaded Volvo to test this and sure enough while it was downloading the file was called launch as you said. But as soon as the Select install language window opened to begin the installation process the file "launch" was changed to a more conventional installation file "volvo_thegame_1.0_setup.exe". It is at this point - while the game's installer is running - that you have to back it up. Either before or after and you're screwed.
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LordKuruku: Well, I'll be damned. Thanks! Don't know why on earth that didn't work the first few times I tried it.
It's nice that it's totally DRM free, but they sure do like to make you work for it, huh?
I have come across the odd game where they were sneaky and instead of decrypting the 'launch' file in situ, they decrypted it to (weird as it sounds) the Windows folder. If you come across a game like that (where the 'launch' file is still encrypted even while the installer is running), you need to find out where the program is running from. I don't know how to do this in XP, but in Windows 7 you can right click on the process in the task manager.
Posted March 02, 2011
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eyeball226: I have come across the odd game where they were sneaky and instead of decrypting the 'launch' file in situ, they decrypted it to (weird as it sounds) the Windows folder. If you come across a game like that (where the 'launch' file is still encrypted even while the installer is running), you need to find out where the program is running from. I don't know how to do this in XP, but in Windows 7 you can right click on the process in the task manager.
It confuses me that things marketed as DRM free are so encumbered with stupid "protection" like this.

To LordKuruku, I'm not too bothered about things being DRM free, to be perfectly honest - there are more important things, so I don't want to go out of my way to find a DRM free copy of Painkiller Redemption. It's more that if things are advertised as DRM free, I damn well want them to be DRM free.
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