More Dungeon Siege LOA problems
Michael Böhnisch
I cannot start Dungeon Siege "classic" nor LOA anymore. It used to run until this morning (left aside the frequent game crashes I reported earlier) but since I returned from work this evening all I get is "Smartesecure has trapped a windows resource error. Please re-run the application." dialog. Re-installing the game from scratch did not cure the problem.
I found out that "Smartesecure" is a copy protection mechanism. The Game CD is not scratched nor dirty; in fact I did not remove it from the drive since I bought the game last week.
What's going on here? I never had comparable problems with any other game before.
Michael.
Jimmy S.
Reboot the machine, log in with your Administrators account
and try the game again. Make sure each user accept the EULA.
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"Michael Böhnisch" <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:65EAFF5A-92AF-4DE8...@microsoft.com...
Jimmy S.
Grant your daughters account administrators privileges, log on as her
and play the game. Afterwards, change her account back and try the
game with her account again. Let me know if that doesn't solve it. :-)
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"Rob" <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3417172F-D6EC-486E...@microsoft.com...
| I get the error all the time with DSLOA. I've never been able to fix it. I've even tried tech support. I've had to give up and let
my kids log in with 'computer admistrator' account. No matter what I try, as a limited user, I get the scipt error/smarteSECURE
error.
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| I just tried this suggestion. Logged in as myself (admin), and played. I must have already accepted the EULA. Switched over to my
daughters account, and it still got the error. Tried switching her to admin, and she then runs fine. Switch back to limited, and
back to the error.
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| This just bugs me a lot. A Microsoft game not working on XP. What should I try?
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Jimmy S.
Try using the Run As... method instead.
1. Click Start / Control Panel / User Accounts / Create a New Account /
Name the Account: "able2play" (without quotes) / Next Pick: "Computer-
Administrator" & Click "Create Account";
2. Click on your new able2play account and Create a Password for it;
3. When your limited user wants to play a game that requires Administrator
privileges they can Right-Click the shortcut to that game / Click Run As... /
"The Following User": able2play and enter the password. Simple as that!
I know what you're thinking: That defeats the purpose of the limited user account.
To secure the "able2play" account so that it can't be used to logon to the computer:
First you can hide the account so that it won't show up on the Welcome Screen:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_hide_users.htm (thanks Doug!)
Next add a shortcut to the windows logoff routine into the RUN key of the
able2play registry. I made a reg patch to simplify this process if you wish to use it:
4. Logon to the "able2play" account,
5. <ONLY RUN THIS PATCH USING THE "ABLE2PLAY" ACCOUNT>
Save this patch to your drive and then doubleclick it to install it to your registry.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/OnlyRunUsingAble2PlayAccount.reg
or
*Instead of using the reg patch, click Start / Run / regedt32 / browse to:
[HKCU\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] and
Click Edit / New / String value / ValueName: logoff / Value data: logoff
From now on, if anyone logs on with the "able2play" account, the computer will log
them off immediately. They will not gain access to an administrators desktop! :-)
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"Rob" <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9DF10671-4430-440E...@microsoft.com...
| It didn't. She could play when she was administrator, but when I switched her back to limited, I got the error.
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| I found the KB 839421, and I get the Param 1: 0, Param 2: 0 error. So I uninstalled the game, then installed again (under admin),
ran it with the same admin account, then switched to her account and it wouldn't work. Then I noticed it said I had to log out of
the admin account, so I restarted, tried to run in limited, no go. Logged in admin ran, ok. Logged out, logged in limited, no go.
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| Has anyone been able to run DSLOA as a limited user? Is it just me. I did buy the game at CompUSA, but not through SoftwareToGo
(the KB article mentions this), does it make a difference? I don't really want to let my 7-year-old run as administrator.
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| In the KB article, it has a note that that says "Note Some games require that you use an administrator account to play." Is this
one of those games?
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| Rob
| (thanks for your help)
Jimmy S.
Cheers,
Jimmy.
"Rob" <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8D5E7B6B-92C1-43BC...@microsoft.com...
| Thanks for the tips. I finally got around to trying them out. I went with a hidden admin account, and 'cpau' for a shortcut for
running it. I may use this technique for other apps that don't play well.
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| I'm still a little ticked that LOA doesn't work with limited users. The origional DS works fine running as a limited user. Copy
protection is fine, unless it interferes with normal usage.
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| Rob