My lame cd problem

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SirrusJ

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I'm experiencing the "Softlock at Orc Splash Screen"

Alright, here are the make and model of my cd drives...they came with an HP Pavilion 7965:

Philips CDD4851
DVD-16X BDV316B (not sure what that one means really...)

I've tried everything on the blizzard support site. I've downloaded their alternated .exe files. I've tried using (and installing to) both of my drives. I've updated every driver possible to update on my computer.

I tried a no-cd, just to see if it would work. It worked once for like an hour and a half, then when I went to play again, it wouldn't work.

I've sent my information (DxDiag and msinfo and localmachine) into the CDProtection team, and they never emailed me back, even though I sent two more emails.

If you have any suggestion (even though I've probably already had it done), feel free.

Thanks

PS: I hate SecuROM
 
This thread has a bunch of information on the CD Problems

http://www.the-group.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5009

Best thing to do though is to keep bugging Blizzard about it. Post on their tech support forum, email them, and keep emailing them about it until you get some kind of answer or attention from someone that is willing to stick with the problem. Best of Luck.
 
Thanks, I already read these forum posts (both on your site and the Blizzard open tech support forum) so I guess I'm just going to have to keep bugging Blizzard like you said...

btw, when I was talking about using the alternate war3.exe files, I mean that I tried the one on step 13 of their troubleshooting page, as well as the one that is supposed to fix the samsung, just for the heck of it.
 
In my experience, the CD Protection team won't email you back until they have a fix - but I was contacting them about the Samsung problem, so they were already working on the problem, and it's kind-of understandable that they'd ignore me until a fix was ready. I'd say you're better off contacting the support email, 'cause they seem to have all of the known solutions, but that's JMO.

Good luck!
 
Once again Blizzard's efforts to protect their game hurt their paying customers. I'm not sure if they have found out yet, but SECUROM is "burnable". Anyone with a decent burner could make a 1:1 copy. This goes to show that the only ones getting hurt are their customers, not the pirates.
 
Originally posted by NoNameRequired
SECUROM is "burnable"...the only ones getting hurt are their customers
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LOL.
So true.
But some pirates are just that stupid.
PS: Blizzard uses SecuRom2, which is supposedly more advanced than SecuRom.
 
I think you mean more sucky (if that's technologically possible hehhe)

Anyhow...yeah, the main support site just asked me to send in the same stuff that I sent in to the CDProtection team, so I said just forget it.

I imagine they're working really hard on it, but their workload could be lessened if they didn't use a crazy cd protector that doesn't even do much to protect the cd, other than protect consumers from playing it heheh.

I really don't wanna sound harsh though, I like Blizzard games, and in the time that my no-cd was working War3 seemed like a great game.
 
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