I don't buy until EA takes off SecuROM.

why? because its harder to pirate? Seriously though, i buy games all the time and this DRM, securerom, bullcrap doesn't bother me at all, don't know why it would for others, unless they pirate all the damn time.

errr what?

sacre, people don't pirate because of securom. i can say that people don't buy the games because of securom. than there are those who pirate regardless.

and pirating doesn't become harder with securom. its the same sh1t, torrent, install, play, of course without that shit being installed in your kernel

[citation]why? because its harder to pirate? Seriously though, i buy games all the time and this DRM, securerom, bullcrap doesn't bother me at all, don't know why it would for others, unless they pirate all the damn time.[/citation]

No, because it's wrong. EA is punishing those who buy the game. The pirates will keep pirating. It's annoying, and I don't want rootkits on my system.

It took 15 minutes to crack the Crysis SecuROM. Ever since it's been introduced it has hurt their sales, driven piracy through the roof, messed up user's computers due to a lack of standardization between the rootkits and overall cost EA money on two fronts while hurting it's customers (loss of sales, putting money in Sony's pocket. Even the demos and steam versions of their games install it on your system. Please, don't say anything else defending this utter idiocy. Not buying EA PC games is an extremely non-nonsensical stance to take right now.

It looks like a great game, but until SecurRom is removed, I will refuse to purchase the game.

I'm all for the advances PhysX is bringing, as I was all for the advances it tried to bring as an add-in card. As we can probably guess in-game physics won't work until it fits inside a CPU core or two or 8.

Thanks to PhysX I now have another layer of troubleshooting to wade through if something goes wrong game wise or video card driver wise, without much to show for it.

GRAW2 does use PhysX stably enough, and it doesn't hit FPS much if at all and there is a boatload of debris and junk floating around where there wasn't before and it isn't too hard to imagine how that could be a very desirable terrain effect..someday. Not today, not tomorrow, but soon enough.

And by the way, secuROM = no sale from me and my circle. You can protect your right to get paid, but don't piss me off in the process.

"Mirror's Edge to Tap Securom Technology"


tht is all i see in this articles title since this is an ea game , could care lesa bout what other techs it uses. no sale for me

you dotn pay alot of attention to news articles regarding hardware dom you LOL ? Nvidia bought Phys-x a while back, Nvidia build physx processing capabilities into every graphics card model from the 8800 and up sieres of cards so if you have a gf 8800 GT , a 9600 GT , a 9800 GT or a 260 or a 280 ( and i thinkt eh 8600;s have it too but not sure) model vid chip, and you have gotten the latest drivers off nivida's web page then you video card can process the physx data as well as the video data in a game, WITH no performance loss , as it actually booste the card's performance ingame with the vid card handliong physx data , (i know cos im on a 9600 gt , with out the later physx enabled drivers i was getting 32-45 fps in Ureal Tournament 3 , with the newer drivers and physx enable UT3 is getting framess around 52 -90 fps ) , same case with silver fall (cept more noticable sicne it is aresource hog of a game ) silver fall before teh physx enable drivers gcame out was seelign 22-35 fps , now it see a much smoother 40 -68 fps.

all future nvida chips will use this , also think ati has developed thier own siliar tech , but not sure if it funtions the smae or works for phjys-x enabled games ??? any wa the day of the "phys-x " cards died before it took hold on teh amrket thanks to nvidia in some regards this couldb e considered bad , sicne it bassically equals less competetion int eh market , yet on teh otehr hand you no longer need a new "doo hicky" card in your comp , just a vid card from nivida as all their future cards will have this ability built into them.

Actually, PhysX slows things down, as there is now more work to do. If you want the best FPS, you have to disable it.

Still, its nice seeing people finally put PhysX's abilities to decent use. To bad its an EA game no one will buy.

Did you actually check the box to enable PhysX on GPU, or are you getting better frame rates actually because you updated your driver?

Man... I don't want physx... if it changes gameplay thats just bullsh*t... theres no way i'm getting this game if physx really changes how the games played... that would be ridiculous... anyway what happened to the drivers from AMD that claimed they ad physx working on their cards?

I will not purchase this game because it has SecurRom. I did not purchase Spore, Bioshock, or any other game that has SecurRom.

it will probably come out on steam though... STEAM FTW!!!!!

I can't see secuROM through all this STEAM...

Case in point: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion sold tens of millions of copies. no copy protection WHATSOEVER. it might not have been the greatest game (but hell it was good!), but it sold more than arugably better games WITH SecuROM.

the gaming industry is crying because of piracy. stuff off the copy protection and it may improve.