Securom/Oblivion GOTY question....

[Achilleslastand]

Missed getting this on the steam sale so decided to reinstall the physical copy that I have, then I remember it came bundled with Securom.
If I remove the Securom with the removal tool will it render the game unplayable?

 

[shortylickens]

See if theres some way to activate Oblivion on Steam, then you wont need the disc any more.

 

[BSim500]

Missed getting this on the steam sale so decided to reinstall the physical copy that I have, then I remember it came bundled with Securom.
If I remove the Securom with the removal tool will it render the game unplayable?

Possibly. For the retail version, there are "noCD" cracks floating around the web somewhere (for both Oblivion & Shivering Isles), stuff which is increasingly necessary for Windows 10.

 

[wanderer27]

Actually, I believe the original Oblivion and the first expansion were DRM free.

It was Shivering Isles (I think) that patched in Securom . . . never even took the cellaphane off that expansion.



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[wanderer27]

No they weren't, but there is a clean no cd fix available as suggested above. I'd recommend that.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...9d78fcfcea2b5cbe937c264f6fb4d983454/analysis/

This backs up my memory on it :

http://forums.2k.com/showthread.php...ivion-proved-this-DRM-nonsense-is-unnecessary


I recall making a copy of Oblivion to a RW CD/DVD when I got it and I played from that without any issues.
No special Rip software was needed, just a quick copy.

Now the last expansion - that's where they went and put SecuRom into it.

I'm not talking about GOTY versions, that could be a different story, but the original launch version was totally DRM free.



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