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Topic Starter	Topic: Quake 4 has Macrovision?
f00dl3 Grunt Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 70	Posted: 10-22-2005 08:19 AM                  Does Quake 4 have the infamous Macrovision copy-protection on the video output? It seems everytime the game crashes, it makes the computer act as if it's being used up with alot of processing power - even 20 mins after the crash. Causes "laggy" appeareance when opening / resizing windows and scrolling through websites.
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q4aholic Commander Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 145	Posted: 10-22-2005 08:21 AM                  may have crashed but still hung in the back ground. open the task manager and check sto see if the quake exe is still open under the PROCESSES tab. if it is, kill it.
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f00dl3 Grunt Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 70	Posted: 10-22-2005 08:22 AM                  I know... I killed it (and the ~e.5000.exe or whatever it is)
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q4aholic Commander Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 145	Posted: 10-22-2005 08:23 AM                  VIRUS TIME.
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f00dl3 Grunt Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 70	Posted: 10-22-2005 08:25 AM                  No viruses, no spyware. I use AVG, Mozilla, and Zone Alarm for firewall. System runs regular before game crashes (and if I close the game out properly). Runs fine after I reboot it. Only fudges when the game crashes. (Display washes out too, but used the ATI color profiles to fix that). Never had this problem before this game. The ~e5000 or w/e program named is part of Quake 4's copy protection. Last edited by f00dl3 on 10-22-2005 08:26 AM, edited 1 time in total.
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q4aholic Commander Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 145	Posted: 10-22-2005 08:26 AM                  i wasnt saying the slow down wasa virus...but a random exe in the console would tell me it is... e.5000.exe? rofl
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f00dl3 Grunt Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 70	Posted: 10-22-2005 08:29 AM                  e5.0001 is part of Macrovision. That was an obvious answer right infront of me all I had to do was search the Internet for it. I hate to put it this way, but is there anyway to bypass the Macrovision so whenever the game crashes, it wont foobar the system? Or is this highly confidential information that they can not tell me and if they do they have to kill me because I am trying to argue a legitimate purpose for doing away with their copy protection?
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Oeloe The Illuminated Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 1530	Posted: 10-22-2005 01:43 PM                  Q4 uses Safedisc V4 for copy protection (or so i heard). Dunno if there is a version of ClonyXXL that detects it.
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Bdw3 Elite Joined: 12 Mar 2000 Posts: 11982	Posted: 10-22-2005 01:45 PM                  Macrovision stuff is definitely there through.
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