{"id":85,"date":"2006-09-08T10:29:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T17:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2006\/09\/ubi-fails-to-supoprt-x64-again\/"},"modified":"2006-09-08T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T17:29:43","slug":"ubi-fails-to-supoprt-x64-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2006\/09\/ubi-fails-to-supoprt-x64-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubi fails to supoprt x64 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a lapse of common sense and went out to get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saitekusa.com\/usa\/prod\/x52.htm\">new joystick<\/a>, which I&rsquo;d been looking at for over a year now trying to figure out if I really did want it or not.&nbsp; Turns out I really did want it, and while I was at Best Buy I decided I&rsquo;d pick up a new flight sim at the same time, to test out the joystick with.&nbsp; Looking through the selection, which consisted of about 3 titles I didn&rsquo;t already have, I quickly grabbed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazing-angels.com\/us\/\">Blazing Angels<\/a>&nbsp;as it looked like it had the most recent video engine of anything up there (I&rsquo;m really looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/games\/flightsimulatorx\/\">FlightSim X<\/a>) to bring home.&nbsp; Figuring that Ubi has gotten past their love affair with the nasty copy protection hackware called StarForce, things should be ok on my x64 system.<\/p>\n<p>Well&hellip; I was wrong.&nbsp; Installed the game fine and it even started up fine (but required a reboot to install whatever their latest copy protection idiocy is).&nbsp; Went to play the first mission and it just hung on the loading screen <a href=\"http:\/\/viagraindian.com\/products\/viagra-soft\/\" style=\"color: #2e2e2e; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; border-color: transparent\">viagra tablets india<\/a>.&nbsp; A quick trip to their support boards located some patches, which I dutifully applied to no avail.&nbsp; Then I noticed that there were a number of posts with other people complaining of the same thing, with no comment by Ubi and apparently no resolution.&nbsp; This was almost a mirror of the nightmare I had with Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory (which works nicely now thanks to a cracking group that removed the StarForce junk preventing me from playing a game I legally bought), and I decided I wasn&rsquo;t going to put up with it.<\/p>\n<p>Best Buy were great &ndash; I&rsquo;d prepared for a big showdown on trying to return open software but they happily accepted it when I explained it didn&rsquo;t work on my x64 system and they exchanged it for a game that did (Microsoft&rsquo;s Combat Flight Sim 3).&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll definitely buy from Best Buy again.&nbsp; I might even buy Ubi games and return them if they continue to ignore their customers and ship faulty games, just to make it look bad on their balance sheet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a lapse of common sense and went out to get a new joystick, which I&rsquo;d been looking at for over a year now trying to figure out if I really did want it or not.&nbsp; Turns out I really did want it, and while I was at Best Buy I decided I&rsquo;d pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}