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Sep 18^th, 2006 at 10:11pm

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Fo all you "released' beta testers........

Does FSX still require the disk to remain in the DVD drive?

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Reply #1 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 12:17am

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Even though I have never been any of the official beta testers, I believe that Microsoft would most likely require us all to have the DVD in the drive in order to combat piracy.

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Reply #2 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 1:04am

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But hopefully, a non-official 'disk-saver' patch will be released soon after the game hits the stores Grin

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Reply #3 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 6:10am

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*I* have a feeling that possibly in-disk verification will not be needed, but some sort of telphone/on line activation will be there, similar to what goes on with Microsoft Office, etc.

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Reply #4 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 7:18am

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i understood the FSX would be released on DVD in which case it may have an effective protection already inbuilt. But probably m(qualcosa)s will insist on leaving a disc inside the drive in order to satisfy their craving for the monopolisation of our systems!!
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Reply #5 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 7:49am

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I don't think u'll need to hav the disc in the drive. Thats like changing the trend. Most of the past's FSs didn't require the disc in (unless u decided not to do a full install), so why should they change it now?

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Reply #6 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 8:31am

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But hopefully, a non-official 'disk-saver' patch will be released soon after the game hits the stores Grin

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...lol.....but DON'T ask for it on SimV................commoner:

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Reply #7 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 9:05am

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*I* have a feeling that possibly in-disk verification will not be needed, but some sort of telphone/on line activation will be there, similar to what goes on with Microsoft Office, etc.

Felix,

That's what I am hoping... but I have not seen anything anywhere saying how this is being handled this time.

Want to hear from one of the official beta testers about it. Although their copies may be different than the version that went " gold".

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Reply #8 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 12:43pm

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1) On-line or telephone activation will be required.

2) There is no requirement for either DVD to remain in the drive.

3) There will be no "pirate patch" to circumvent the registration available.

IOW, the registration process for FSX is identical to that currently used for WinXP installation...

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Reply #9 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 1:53pm

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Reply #10 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 2:11pm

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Quote:

1) On-line or telephone activation will be required.

2) There is no requirement for either DVD to remain in the drive.

3) There will be no "pirate patch" to circumvent the registration available.

IOW, the registration process for FSX is identical to that currently used for WinXP installation...

Great...thanks for the "inside scoop" n4gix. That is great news that the disk won't have to be in the drive. Install it once and put it all in a safe place. I was hoping that they would go that route with this release.

This change is probably going to "frost" some of the folks that run WideView that need to to run multiple copies of the sim on multiple machines to get the outside views. I am guessing that a lot of them just (illegally) reinstalled the same software package on multiple machines in the past. Now the online reg process will reguire multiple copies of the program.... one per machine..... five or six machines.... $300 - 400 not spent on software before.

So I think your comment in #3 is probably "overly optimistic". The "pirates" are rather creative in their illegal endeavors..... and the cracks seem to pop up faster than the new stuff is released.

It will be interesting to see what happens.

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........john

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Reply #11 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 2:39pm

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While the esteemed Fr. Poly (refers to his modelling skills, not his rotundness) verified what I thought, my suspcions of such (athentication) came about from discovering an interesting little text file in the demo installation that, if I remember, had words to the effect "telephone authentication"....

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1) On-line or telephone activation will be required.

2) There is no requirement for either DVD to remain in the drive.

3) There will be no "pirate patch" to circumvent the registration available.

IOW, the registration process for FSX is identical to that currently used for WinXP installation...

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Reply #12 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 3:08pm

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If you look in the main folder of the demo even there's a file called Phone Activation.xml

All part of the softening up process I guess - they can claim they never made a secret of it.

Personally I deeply resent this approach. A week or so ago I had to telephone to 'activate' a client's legitimate copy of XP that I was told had been activated too many times on the Internet.

What a bl**dy cheek. I was the one trying to repair the PC after XP had managed to foul itself up and stop booting - and to be told I had to talk to some bored teenager and 'explain' why I was activating the software again was a liberty and the last straw.

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Reply #13 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 3:10pm

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You can do it online AFAIK.

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Reply #14 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 3:34pm

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I'm going to hang on for a while until I can gather which method Microsoft are considering using to extract my personal information from me and my hard drive before allowing me to install the program.

I'm getting a bit brassed-off with all Microsoft's security paranoia at the moment.

Whenever you have a little window pop up telling you that you have a fault in a program, have you had a peek through the list of your various program details you will be allowing them to browse through if you are daft enough to press the "Send" button?
I like to keep all my computer software personal information contained on my hard drive to myself... Wink

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Humph...!

We've never had all this grief in previous versions of the Flight Sims... Angry

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Paul.... Wink

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