SecuRom, Borderlands, and lost sleep...A story of woe.

Ok, just everybody knows, this will not become habit. However, I am going to use my little corner of the world-wide-inter webs to ventilate. That's right, hang on tight.

It all started yesterday afternoon as I was browsing at our local Walmart. They were running a sale on 'Borderlands' for the PC. It was on sale for $20 bucks. I went home and browsed around the web and found that as of that time, that was the best price I could find on the game. So, I made the jump and went and bought it. Fast forward a few hours later to when I attempted to install it.

Ok, first and foremost, my mistake was not fully reading the box. This game contains SecuRom DRM. Personally, not a DRM fan. From my experience it hurts those who actually pay for their games. Ok, enough of that. My DVD drive died some time back. I am cheap. So rather than replace it, I simply made ISO images of the disc's I use regularly and mount them from my external hard drive. Most of the time it is for testing Linux Live CD's. So I haven't really bumped into SecuRom as of late. No big deal, right? Wrong, it's an act of congress to get the game to run from an ISO image. After spending several hours trying to research on ways around it so I can run the game I paid for without resulting to questionable means, I realized I was beat.

Finally I broke down and got a DVD drive from a friend, and am now reinstalling for the third time. Time will tell if it will finally work. From what I read, the steam version had some issues too, but they were easier to resolve.

***Ok, update: final install worked. Running without any drive emulation software active. Looks like I'm finally up and running. After 6 hours of research and failed attempts I can now play my $20 game. Looks as though if I had a working DVD drive in the first place I would've been playing a long time ago...oh well.