[Wine] Re: SecuRom - "A required security module cannot be activat

vitamin wineforum-user at winehq.org
Fri May 2 17:12:58 CDT 2008


David Shaw wrote:
> vitamin wrote:
> 
> > lampak wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Hard luck :(
> > > But how can I run Oblivion (from Game of The Year Edition) if it checks the disk even before being installed?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Install it on windows and copy it to Linux. Most games should work that way.
> > 
> 
> OK, now I'm confused.  I thought doing that was frowned on, due to the 
> problems of missing registry keys and dll's etc being put in weird 
> places and not getting copied over properly  :-S

Correct that's the problem for most regular programs.

Games in most part are exceptions from this rule. They don't have too many registry settings and put all their dlls into game's directory.

However this of course is not guaranteed to work - just something to try.







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