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Originally Posted by Kuttner
This fix seems to work... except if you switch your modem off. While connected online I was able to start, quit, start 5 straight times with no problem. But when I switched off the modem it was back to the "Your license is no longer valid." I experimented alternating between online/offline and 3 straight times I was offline I got the error.
It was my understanding from pisdpaul's post from March that "The need to check in on a regular basis has been removed with the new design."
So is this just a stopgap measure? Or have the terms changed? Or am I missing something here? |
No it does not need to talk to the internet on startup. What is happening is with your modem turned off it makes your hardware look different to the licensing system. You could try starting the game with the modem offline. When it asks you to license the game select the manually license option.
Then connect to the net, and do the online registration. Then you can disconnect the modem and enter the authorisation code. That way the game never sees your modem and it should work fine.
Can you post back how you get on and give me a little more info about your modem so I can ignore it in future. (if you could email or PM me with the output of ifconfig while you are online that would help too)