Activation is OS user account affiliated

[golfsierra2]

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=47144

 

Q: What will be the activation limits for Flaming Cliffs 2.0?

A: 8 activations and 10 deactivations. Note that just reinstalling the game does NOT use an activation! An activation or deactivation is only used when there is a significant hardware or OS change. Even if the user has exhausted all of their activations and deactivations, more are provided with proof of purchase. If in the unfortunate circumstance Eagle Dynamics were to go out of business, our intent would be to release a final patch to remove copy protection.

 

Everybody, please be aware that this is not the full story.

Unlike FC 1.1, FC 2.0 registers itself under the user profile (under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\). This can have an impact on the activation:

 

You need to be logged onto your computer using administrator rights to install FC 2.0. If you test it, you will have to activate it in order to run the game.

 

A wide-spread security advice tells computer user to run their system under another user account, by that limiting the vulnerability by internet attacks and harmful software, which can not get any rights to install software then (missing admin rights of the current user profile). However, if you then run FC 2.0 as user (not admin) on the same computer, FC 2.0 will call for another activation, which then makes two activations for one installation on one computer.

 

If you change your hardware / software configuration, you have to activate FC 2.0 again each time you exceed the 12 points limit.

 

In this scenario, you will have used up your 8 activations after only 4 computer upgrades.

 

I thought it would be fair to point this out to anybody, because I already 'lost' one activation by using the admin and an user account.

Edited March 30, 2010 by golfsierra2