Wings Of Prey activation and deactivation

Peter Tsang · 21 Sep 2010 at 22:58

Fellas,

I've bought WOP the day before yesterday, it's a great game. I feel like I have married to a pretty woman whO I feel like I am making love every time I play it.

But I have got this problem. I am running Deep Freeze for personal reasons. As you know, it reboots the machine and everything will be returned to the original state.

Now as some of you who have a legal copy of it might know that you only have 3 activations and 10 deactivations. Every time you activate it, YuPlay takes 1 activation from you and every time you deactivate it, YuPlay take 1 deactivation from you.

Despite I have absolutely no idea as to why this system works the way it is which I find it un-necessary for a legitimate copy of the game.

Now how do I get around this problem? Now I have only 1 activation left and 9 deactivation left. I probably will run out next time I reboot my PC. I can't afford to not rebooting my PC....so anyone can suggest me any methods ideas...whatever that will help?

Thanks
Peter

Dano · 22 Sep 2010 at 00:01

Turn off Deep Freeze, install and activate, turn on Deep Freeze.

Peter Tsang · 22 Sep 2010 at 12:54

My friends suggest me to get a crack copy, I have already bashed them on their face and it will take some time for them to recover.

I have just come up with a bright idea, but a separate hard disk just for this game so this is what I have bought:

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-gb/products/external/freeagent/freeagent_go/

Hope it works, but I have to install vista on it!

Dano · 22 Sep 2010 at 13:01

Why on earth are you making this so difficult for yourself?

uv · 22 Sep 2010 at 13:15

hang on.. so every time you boot your PC up, you have to reinstall the game from scratch?

If you're going to use Deep Freeze on a gaming PC, why not just install the game Deep Freeze is "thawed", then enable the frozen state as recommended in the second post?

Peter Tsang · 22 Sep 2010 at 14:38

uv said:
hang on.. so every time you boot your PC up, you have to reinstall the game from scratch?

If you're going to use Deep Freeze on a gaming PC, why not just install the game Deep Freeze is "thawed", then enable the frozen state as recommended in the second post?

I didn't know how to use the thawed drive. Now with your message I think I know what it is by guessing. So the things that are kept on the thawed drive will not be threw away? Yes, that's a good idea.

Why I make things so difficult ? Maybe the experience I have over the internet you don't have. I remember many years ago, I joined an local ISP here which use peer-to-peer and NETBIOS for her own clients base. I constantly detected incoming traffic, that's OutPost I used then, one of the PC platform firewall software used in Windows XP. Becaue of the tremendous NETBIOS traffic my surfing experience was very very bad in terms of being slow.

Over the year, I have other bad experience. Hardware reborn card, Deep Freeze or MS SteadyState not only useful to school, govrnment library or some office environment. It is an alternative to prevent possible virus infection without the hassle of installing software anti-virus some of which slows down your PC quite considerably.

In fact, without software like deep freeze or SteadyState, your PC is prone to many invisible attacks. Apart from external factors which you get from the Internet, some software also slow your PC down. For example, Nero Burner version 8 considerably slows down my PC after installation.

A typical Windows environment is that the OS itself, then ATI drivers, at the most motherborad AC'97 driver and that's all. By way of this, your OS is very "Pure" and "Clean". How do you tell whether some dll files are not prone to potential intrusion from the Internet?

Yes, I install each game I play every time after I reboot my PC. This is not and should not be thought as redundant. Actually, if you go to any Internet cafe down town, they do the same. I wanted to play Battlefield 2, it took 15 minutes before I can play it. But then, I don't play it everyday. It doesn't bother me. I install Civ 5 every time I want to play it. And it just took me 5 minutes at the most. I shut down most of the services from Vista and the installation of software, not only games the difference is "Day and Night" I tell you. Many services on a standalone PC is absolutely no use.

Anyway, in the case of Wings of Prey, I must make way for it, I bought a separate hard disk for it. It's another 25 quids, but it worths the money to spend on such an awesome looking game like Wings of Prey.

you can only activate it at the most for 30 times because you can deactivate it for 10 time and activate for 3 times. Assuming one doesn't forget to deactivate it so you don't waste 1 activation. Anyway...hope in future games, WOP don't implement this activation rules or I will be forced to buy cracked version which I hate so much!

Dano · 22 Sep 2010 at 14:46

You are making mountains out of molehills I'm afraid, use steady state or deepfreeze, that's fine, but for lords sake turn them off, install your games and then turn them back on again. Otherwise you're wasting extraordinary amounts of time re-installing games for no reason whatsoever, not to mention being unable to patch them or having to do that everytime too.

And please, reduce the size of your images.

uv · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:31

It's completely un-necessary imo. I don't use a firewall, I don't have any anti virus software, yet I don't have any issues. If you're behind a router and you don't spend yor days downloading screensavers and msn smileys, you'll be fine.

Peter Tsang · 22 Sep 2010 at 21:06

Dano said:
You are making mountains out of molehills I'm afraid, use steady state or deepfreeze, that's fine, but for lords sake turn them off, install your games and then turn them back on again. Otherwise you're wasting extraordinary amounts of time re-installing games for no reason whatsoever, not to mention being unable to patch them or having to do that everytime too.
And please, reduce the size of your images.

I know it's a hassle to do all that. You could be right. Maybe I should do that. I am thinking to use this new drive for backup. And then free up one of the protected drives to open it without using deep freeze or steady state just for WOP. But that drive still is up to 125GB and it's a WD 12,000rpm raptor. Well...it since I love the game so much, it deserves a good drive. But I may not use that drive for Internet surfing just for the game. Expensive though.

Dano · 22 Sep 2010 at 21:46

There is no could be about it, what on earth is so wrong with turning off deep freeze while you install the game and patch it?

As for deserving a good drive... If the speed of your drive makes any difference to WoP or IL2 other than the speed at which it loads you need more memory.