Take my liberty. Take my life. Take my Dungeon Siege? NO WAY
| Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2006-07-20 01:09 | ||
This sucks. A whole lot. When I attempt to run Dungeon Siege, it just says, "SmarteSECURE has trapped a windows resource error. Please re-run the apllication." Well, I reran the application. A couple thousand times. I've tried everything. I used the Windows help thing that says you need to get rid of your temporary files, I've sweeped my computer for viruses and adware and spyware, I even installed it on another computer to see if it was the disk. But it worked fine on my other computer. Just not my gaming computer. I was looking forward to playing this great game again. Damn it, I was going to go through the entire campaign this summer! And now some god-forsaken resource error dares bar my path? I'm on my knees, here. I need help. forums: |
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Why not just uninstall smartesecure?
Or, try running a search with everything enabled searching for this maligerant "smartesecure". If you find it, delete it, or even better, put it through a file shredder program to PERMANENTLY termanate it, so it cannot be resurected through any means. Do this for anything you see that for that program. If it resists, then you know that it is a problem and you should order your antivirus software to quarantine it at once.
SmarteSECURE is the anti-piracy system installed on the disk. Otherwise I would've deleted it by now.
This might help:
http://garage.gaspowered.com/?q=node/4380
You receive a "SmarteSECURE has trapped a windows resource error" error message when you start Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna
Try here
open device manager and click view > show hidden, most anti piracy stuff is installed as a device driver.
And once the hidden nemeis is found, Shred it, If shredding is not possible, then hinder it in every way you can : Tell the firewall to deny it any internet access, go into its code and enter a bunch of random charactors, etc. Anything to foul this anti-pirate software! :twisted:
....Well at least that is what *I* do to programs I do not like...
Where do I find device manager?
I don't use windows much right now but I think there is an option called "handle" if you right-click on "my computter". Choosing "properties" should also get you there via some clicks.
Right-click My Computer and go to Manage (this opens Computer Management... which contains a ton of admin. utilities, including Device Manager).
Okay, I'm in device manager. Where do I find anti piracy stuff? More specifically, for DS?
Did you even bother to check the microsoft link? None of the "anti-piracy" posts have much if anything at all to do with your problem.
Yes I did, thank you, and it was very little help.
A lot of the old "fixes" recommended complete reinstalls of the game itself. It's possible that an OS reinstall might help. Course I'm part of the MSFN community where a lot of people tend to reinstall Windows every month or less
If you have more than one optical drive, try putting the game disk in the other one to see if the error persists... I remember a reference somewhere about certain CD/DVD drives not reading copy protection sectors of some disks properly.
I always found the so-called-protection a bit odd, since I ripped the CDs w/ CDR50 to ISOs and mounted them thru CDR50, and never had a problem -- though what I read about the protection scheme that shouldn't of worked. Course that was under win98 so who knows.
uninstall - run a cleaner - fix any "issues" - re-install..
I use Ccleaner - free download via Google search..
good luck!