A8N-SLI with Crucial RAM

[Ben Pope]

All I want to do is play this copy of Doom 3 that I was bought for
Christmas

This is interesting:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2330&p=4

Ben

 

[Tale Gunner]

This is interesting:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2330&p=4

Ben

Be aware that Doom 3 has protection in it that if you have Alcohol 120
recording software, Clone CD or Nero Suite it will not run. My
brother-in-law just purchased Doom3 and found that he had to remove
his recording software to get it to run. Didn't use to be that way in
the earlier version but I guess it is now.

 

[Tale Gunner]

I usually buy Crucial RAM from www.dabs.com - anyone used this successfully
with the A8N-SLI motherboard?

Thanks, Rob.

I'm running Komusa ram and the bandwidth is fantastic for this system.
It runs without any problems at all. I used to love Crucial but this
ram had better specs and I have yet to have a problem.

 

[Ben Pope]

Be aware that Doom 3 has protection in it that if you have Alcohol 120
recording software, Clone CD or Nero Suite it will not run. My
brother-in-law just purchased Doom3 and found that he had to remove
his recording software to get it to run. Didn't use to be that way in
the earlier version but I guess it is now.

I'm not sure how thats relevant. But if it's the case that they disable the
game for having these software installed, thats outrageous. I use Daemon
tools because when I'm developing some software that autoruns, it's a lot
easier to burn to image and read from image than faff around with actually
recording to a cd.

So I suppose that anybody who has ever bought a CD Writer and installed the
included software is now a Doom3 thief?

Ben

 

[RJT]

I'm not sure how thats relevant. But if it's the case that they disable the
game for having these software installed, thats outrageous. I use Daemon
tools because when I'm developing some software that autoruns, it's a lot
easier to burn to image and read from image than faff around with actually
recording to a cd.

So I suppose that anybody who has ever bought a CD Writer and installed the
included software is now a Doom3 thief?

This is not new, Need For Speed Underground 2 has this copy protection
as well.

http://eatech.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...=15775&p_created=1095270252&p_li=&p_topview=1

All you need to do is disable the software... Or you can use it to mount
a hacked cd and play the game - best of both worlds I suppose.

I've been playing Doom3 too, but if I find that it won't play because of
Alcohol or Nero installed, it's going straight back to the shop where I
bought it.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

Be aware that Doom 3 has protection in it that if you have Alcohol 120

recording software, Clone CD or Nero Suite it will not run. My

That's rather OTT! I use Nero as shipped with my DVD burner.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

All you need to do is disable the software... Or you can use it to mount a

hacked cd and play the game - best of both worlds I suppose.

I was about to say "I bet there are hacks for this"...