Yasu and ArmA v1.0.5

[budgetkuts]

must not happen in mp then cuz i got turned into a bird twice today. its copy protection. more of an annoyance really, when u beat the copy protection the game its self looks for an artificial scratch in the disc but naturally when u clone a disk the computer attempts to fix the scratches and the game cant find the scratches. gameplay starts to increasingly gets worse. its called FADE, subversive code.

[evlncrn8]

fade is generally based on the serial number actually...

[ModeZt]

Female, budgetkuts do you have a legit serial numbers?
I have no problems with emulating the disk in MP and SP. I suggest you to buy this game because it really rocks.

[budgetkuts]

fade is based on copying the disc and yes i am legit i cant speak for female.

[evlncrn8]

erm op flashpoint and the last 3 'faded' games, the fade check was based on the serial check.. 100% certain on that, which is why i mentioned the serial key.. fade is generally used with another protection like safedisc or securom or starforce etc, if fade was a disk based check like you think then it could not co-exist with the existing protection signatures on the disk....
name any faded games that dont have a cdkey/serial?

[budgetkuts]

good point actually but like my last post said, ive been wrong before lol and ive read just a bit about it. never played any other faded games. thats just what i read in an article i looked at after someone mentioned it.

[Female]

Yeah, you may be right that FADE use the serial key but still when I play Operation Flashpoint a message appeares that original games doesn't fade, and I got a legal version of the game.

[RocketChef]

Its because OFP checks the integrity of the game .exe. If the checksum doesn't match -> crack is assumed -> FADE. If you haven't applied any no-cd crack, you might have been infected by a virus.

[budgetkuts]

good point actually but like my last post said, ive been wrong before lol and ive read just a bit about it. never played any other faded games. thats just what i read in an article i looked at after someone mentioned it.

for some reason the last post i was reffering to never got posted. hmmm.



well the thing about it is it never did it before the patch and i am legal i have a legal key from 505 games.

[Inf3kt.]

Fade is a serial thing.
I've tried with my legit key and one found online, guess which one fades?

[smoochy]

Your own?

*scnr*

[oiler]

with original key game working with np. So if u like it - buy it.

[budgetkuts]

Fade is a serial thing.
I've tried with my legit key and one found online, guess which one fades?

prolly both now since you screwed around.

[xlodx]

I don`t think Fade has anything 2 do with a serial it checks
the checksum of ArmA`s main files and in case of a mismatch its fragging tha game.

[IlyaZ]

I'm an OFP/Arma Cheat Dev.

FADE is definately CD-KEY based. The CD-key is converted to an ID. This ID is very important. Every CD-key has got its own unique ID.

If the ID is incorrect, like most of those generated by the keygen, it's 10 numbers large (or more, but you only see 10). Bought IDs are 8 or so in size. If you manage to change your ID to an 8 one it will let you play.

This should be of NO problem at all for Razor. What we need is a REVERSE keygen. One that takes an ID, let's say one we know is valid (they are all public in MP), and converts it into a CD-key! This would also corrupt the _whole_ ID-ban system.

For every CD-key there's one ID (as we can see), but it's not certain that every ID has exactly one CD-key connected to it. And that could be a bit problematic.

In the latest OFP patch it's likely that they started using CRC checks (phys and RAM). It didn't trigger FADE at least what I know. Some cheats triggered _parts_ of FADE though. But never the whole system.