A Land Far Away

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2008 3:41 am**

This was from the bioware forums via the NWvault.

Crosspost from Bioware forum. May be extremely helpful for other unsuspecting customers that patched to 1.13:

Posted: Wednesday, 06 August 2008 01:06AM
Quote: Posted 08/05/08 13:39 (GMT) by Rashkae_

It has recently come to light that patch 1.13 includes an update to SecuRom that installs a Windows Shell Extension the first time NWN2 is run after patching.

This Shell Extension has a nasty habit of causing Windows Explorer to crash every time you right click on an EXE file (or a shortcut pointing to an EXE file.)

A hotfix from Securom is available here:
Link

I have spent the past 48 hours off and on trying various Spyware and Antivirus products to name the source of my random Explorer crashes (since patching to 1.13). SECUROM has left my system inoperable. Couldn't even copy files. Booted to UBCD 4Win. Ran HOURS of memory chip tests. Found nothing.

Now I read this...

That's it OBSIDIAN. ENOUGH SECUROM <bleep>.

UPDATE: The SECUROM repair patch DID in fact resolve my random EXE crashes. Motherboard is nVidia 680i with latest production WinXP Sp3 32-bit drivers.

So, if you have any issues it could be the latest patch messing with your system.

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2008 3:47 am**

the bioware thread is here:

http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/vi ... m=109&sp=0

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:02 am**

Thanks Dan.

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:05 am**

Thanks for the info Dan,

I've had windows explorer (Vista 32 Ult) crashes since the patch, so far only when I drag something (Prog or shortcut) to the trash. If I highlight and hit DEL no crash so go figure. Nothing major so far...

Kate

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:25 am**

After reading this thread NWN2 started giving me trouble, but worked fine after rebooting the computer.

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:48 pm**

Man, after reading that and posting it I was having all kinds of issues deleting Exe files. I had forgot about it and just now remembered that this stupid new patch was causing the issue. Downloaded the repair file and I dont get any crashes now. Stupid ass SecureRom...lame ass spyware.

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:32 pm**

For anyone having OS problems after patching NWN2:

http://www.securom.com/support/repair.zip

A Land Far Away

SecureRom Issues with patch 1.13

SecureRom Issues with patch 1.13