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Hello everyone. I know I've already annoyed many of you with this topic. But I need help. What to do about the fact that Activision bans and labels players as cheaters for running CoDBOCW on a ReFS-installed Windows and under Wine/Proton? I don’t know why, but no one wants to publicly accuse them of crossing all boundaries. And they allow themselves things that are not stipulated in the terms, agreement, or policy. The thing is, my friends and I have proven that running a game on a Windows installed with ReFS leads to a permanent ban, as well as marking players in Steam as cheaters. The question is how to get rid of it without buying a new game and without creating a new account. None of the support from different services wants to help. Activision just feeds us dogma that we supposedly violated something and tells us to read the policy, but of course, they don't reveal the reason. And Steam and Blizzard refer us back to Activision, claiming they can't help or simply don't want to. And overall, why can't a multi-billion dollar company fix its worthless and useless anti-cheat? The cheaters themselves don't seem to be particularly affected, but honest people are randomly banned so easily. It's trivial even for a BSOD. https://www.reddit.com/r/Warzone/comments/1kl8wys/ - my post on reddit https://steamcommunity.com/id/bunkerbox - my account https://steamcommunity.com/id/reginadino - friend's account https://steamcommunity.com/id/htgyoma - dartraiden's account https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199129804136 - personal and now test account https://youtu.be/vwNpGhFKEDg https://youtu.be/lQBMKELPves - stream recording and video about the ban https://youtu.be/r0xKmV8a3Mk - demonstration of receiving a shadow ban in Black Ops 6 https://youtu.be/80IaDjXdM8Y - footage of not starting BO4 on ReFS partition without admin rights https://youtu.be/HaDhROH4oio - final permaban, bug report was rejected again https://youtu.be/1f4RKuZLq_0 - ban in Activision support

I think the last retail games I bought were Mafia 2 and Just Cause 2 and that was around 2010-2011. 14 years ago. Retail games are mostly tied to one or another store anyway and having physical box doesn't guarantee much since activation. Nowadays I rarely buy new games and mostly older ones(2+ yo) when they're much cheaper, 50% - 75+% off. Retail can't offer that.

I only buy physical PC games if they are DRM-free or include a Steam Key; Steam DRM is much less scummy than the various DRM schemes used in the 2000s (and I don't want to have my disc drive hogging a USB slot while I'm playing). Digital is also significantly cheaper (unlike with movies and console games), as well as generally already fixed for modern systems, which is why I don't buy 90s games physically either. Combine this with the fact that I didn't have a gaming-suitable PC until 2017, and I end up with a physical collection of… two games.

Hey everyone, I was going through some old boxes and found a few of my old PC game discs (stuff like Half-Life 2, Crysis, and even The Sims 2). It made me realize I haven’t actually bought a physical PC game in more than 10 years — everything’s just Steam, GOG, or Game Pass now. I kind of miss having the box art and manuals, but at the same time digital libraries are just way more convenient. The only downside for me is the feeling that if a service shuts down, I might lose access. Curious — do you guys still collect physical copies of PC games, or have you gone 100% digital? And if you do still collect, where do you usually find them these days?

Actually all sets of dlls are bit identical. (Two in the 64 bit version and one in the other.) Anyway, I copied them in both places. Executed both RUNME.BAT files. Not sure if it works though. I don't know how to verify. (The instructions are definitely wrong for the most/all points. Such as the way described to run the .reg files.) I don't want it for the game though. I wanted to rip its music, but directmusic software don't seem to work nowadays. So far it didn't help sgt2wav and direct music producer still can't seem to export to wav. I just wish I knew whether I was unsuccessful installing this package or it's just not enough. (And for the life of me, I can't find out why the "ambush" music doesn't work with any software outside the game itself.)

If you have 64bit Windows, you should use the 64 version, just in case (it actually has both 64 and 32 bit dlls, so it should work for anything). Also keep in mind that on 64 bit, Syswow64 is actually for 32 bit files and system32 is for 64 bit (it's confusing, but Microsoft designed it so for some technical reason). However, the installation of the fix is more complicated on Windows 11 because the DM_FIX.cmd uses some outdated commands and doesn't work properly, so you have to manually take ownership of Windows' existing files in the system folders or use a tool like PowerRun which allows you to open an Explorer window with TrustedInstaller privileges (allowing you to simply copy and paste the files). Be sure to backup the original dlls when doing this. After you copied the files (again, 32 bit ones go in syswow64 and 64 bit ones in system32, apps will automatically find the right ones if they're installed properly), you should run the runme.bat files in both the 32 and 64 registry key folders in the fix (preferably through a command line opened via Powerrun to ensure that they get proper premissions). Again, it's a good idea to make a registry backup too before doing this.

Hi! Which version I'm supposed to use? X64 because my OS is X64, or X86 because the game is X86? Also the install instructions are very unclear. There's a system32 and syswow folder for x64. The latter is not even mentioned. There's a script in the reg keys folders as well, also there are two registry key folders. Also I can't take ownership of the dll files in system32. Also the dll files that do appear seem to be linked from somewhere else. PS: Why does my profile show up as new with zero posts? I posted here years ago, and my login info was stored in the password manager.

Win+R, type "regedit" navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\THQ\Juiced", right click on the "Language" entry to modify it (make sure you set it to decimal): German:7 Spanish:10 Italian:16 French:1036 English: any other value