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

[David Shaw]

vitamin wrote:
> David Shaw wrote:
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>> vitamin wrote:
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>>> lampak wrote:
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>>>> Hard luck :(
>>>> But how can I run Oblivion (from Game of The Year Edition) if it checks the disk even before being installed?
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>>> Install it on windows and copy it to Linux. Most games should work that way.
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>> 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
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> Correct that's the problem for most regular programs.
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> 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.
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> However this of course is not guaranteed to work - just something to try.

You learn something every day  :-)

Thank you for the explanation

David