[Bug 27417] SafeDisc 4.x: media validation fails (Assassins Creed)

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27417

Robert Wm Ruedisueli <ruediix at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Robert Wm Ruedisueli <ruediix at gmail.com> 2013-01-14 14:34:27 CST ---
Last I checked items using EA DiskCheck (a proprietary SafeDisc derivative)
fail.  The exact error was "wrong medium type." (EA was actually nice enough to
report the errors in plain text, into an error log in the program directory,
not that their documentation mentions it.)  

Apparently, the disk access drivers of Wine are not properly forwarding the
check media type routine to the drive.   This is used by EA DiskCheck to see if
the disk in the drive is a CD-R, and not the original disk.  EA has also
reported that some drives and/or controllers do not properly respond to these
commands.

This includes The Sims 3, but The Sims 3 may be working now, as I haven't
checked recently.

However, there is a legal way around using SafeDisc on most EA games.  If you
register them on Origin you can download the EA Origin DRM version (a variant
of SecureROM).

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