securom is stopping the game from running

[TheHurricane]

nothing to read here

[Keith]

What Windows version?

Did the game install?

What happens if anything? "Doesn't run" doesn't tell us much.

Is your video card DirectX 9 compliant?

Does it support Transform and Lighting (T&L)?

Do you have updated drivers for your video card? Sound card? CD/DVD drive?

Do you have at SONY CD/DVD drive?

Have you tried turning off your virus scanner before running?

System Requirements
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Minimum:

Pentium® III or Athlon® 800 MHz processor or higher
Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP operating system
128 MB of RAM (256 MB required for Windows® XP)
1.1 GB uncompressed free hard drive space

A 100% Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP-compatible computer system including:
DirectX® 9.0b
100% DirectX® 9-compliant true 16 bit sound card and drivers
100% DirectX® 9-compliant 32 MB video card and drivers
100% Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP -compatible mouse and drivers
100% Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP -compatible keyboard
100% Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP -compatible quad speed (600 K/sec sustained transfer rate) CD-ROM drive and drivers
Recommended:

Pentium® 4 or Athlon® 2.0 GHz processor
512 MB of RAM
64 MB video card will full Direct 9.0 support

[TheHurricane]

after much, messing around and a little help from my friend, we managed to get it to work...tilted mill nice job game looks great. i hope that we will see more from you...apologies for myangry first post..but i've been trying to get this game to work,. am a big fan of city builder's

cheers...

P.S loved the intro

[sitearm]

TheHurricane: Congrats to get it working! What was the fix that made it (finally) work?

after much, messing around and a little help from my friend, we managed to get it to work...tilted mill nice job game looks great. i hope that we will see more from you...apologies for myangry first post..but i've been trying to get this game to work,. am a big fan of city builder's

cheers...

P.S loved the intro

[j13waldman]

I ran into a problem with securom myself. I usually make backup images of my games so I don't have to swap cds all the time (I play lots of games). When I tried to use Daemon tools to run the game from the image, the game gave an error message about securom. Not a big deal as I did buy the game but there definitely is some additional copy protection in the code.

[ouch]

Securom sucks, it's not at all secure and it always causes problems. I have yet to see a game with it that didn't suffer these consiquences.

[Keith]

I believe later releases of SecuROM prevent the use of virtual drives and images, IIRC. I think I read that on their website a while back. I'm not 100% certain, but you can read all about it there.

[TheHurricane]

I ran into a problem with securom myself. I usually make backup images of my games so I don't have to swap cds all the time (I play lots of games). When I tried to use Daemon tools to run the game from the image, the game gave an error message about securom. Not a big deal as I did buy the game but there definitely is some additional copy protection in the code.

virtual drive emulation had nothing to do with this game not running. i wasn't going to say how i got it working but if you really want to know, i made an image of the game using a program called BW and another little program called BW tweaker..the rest i'll not post here as i don't want to cause any trouble for myself...if you really need to know pm and i'll give you the info you need...sorry guys i just can't support illegal copies..i own the original game so it isn't hurting tilted mill

in other new's i've had a good look at this game it isn't bad at all infact..but i do prefer top down as opposed to 3d view.. ;)

[sitearm]

Thanks for sharing your solution and for your integrity. Good show! ;)

P.S. Lately I've been mouse-wheeling to full-wide-angle and right-click-dragging mouse pitch to look top down during design. But I still zoom in for detail :D

...how i got it working... in other new's i've had a good look at this game it isn't bad at all infact..but i do prefer top down as opposed to 3d view.. ;)