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I appreciate the responses guys! Great to see you're still going strong here too GoGo!! I did see the Steam version and I nearly went for it but I'm an extremely stubborn old mule (ask my wife) and I fought and fought and I don't know how I did it but I got it to work. I don't know why I keep letting this game pull me in, lol

Ok, I'm digging up this old thread because I'm trying to install this bloody game again (like an idiot) so many years later. I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment. So I got the main game installed and then ran it once. Then installed I&B pack. Now I'm trying to run it and I'm fighting the ridiculous SECURom garbage. I can't find the path for the ActivationRequest.dfa is located because of course running with one of my activation keys didn't work. Any help is deeply appreciated. I just want to be able to play a game I purchased over a DECADE AGO. EDIT: I try the manual activation and after adding the ActivationRequest.dfa to the activation page and entering the game ser # I get an error "invalid file size". I assume this occurs because the ActivationRequest.dfa file says it is 0 bytes. Just don't know what's going on here. I don't recall ever running into this.

Yeah I was so blown away when I got the invite. No idea they were even planning the event. We all played the dev build of the beta at the time in the studio, heard the history of how they put the team together, just massive amounts of info and just incredibly fun. Top 3 best experiences of my life thus far

Thanks for the help guys. I used to have all these oddities about installing, patching, and making the game "happy" so it will run but I've been away from it for so long those things slip away. But I know it is still one of my all time favorites regardless of all the problems. And yea GoGo, I have been playing games Been pretty heavily involved in Firefall, the game and the community. Got into it when Red 5 Studios announced it back in Sept. 2010 at PAX. Been a big part of the community over 2 years now. Got invited along with 19 other community members to California to visit the studio, party with the dev team, get to see the inner workings of a game studio and let in on a lot of secrets. R5 is a really awesome group, treated us like part of the family. Other than that, I have been into GW2, Torchlight 2 and Path of Exile. Have you guys checked out PoE? It reminds me a lot of the Sacred series. I think you guys would like it

Hello all I have been getting the Sacred 2 craving back lately and am about to reinstall it. But I have been away for so long now, I am not sure of some things anymore. I have both the US and UK versions of the game but I'm going to install the UK version so I can run Ice and Blood too. I know the game will need patched, I'd like a little help though. I see a lot has changed around here. Where is the absolute best place or places to find patches? What are the must-have downloads for Sacred 2 UK? I did try some searching but couldn't come up with much. I really appreciate any help -Smitty EDIT: Something else, as I mentioned I have the Ice and Blood expansion pack. If I remember right I need to get my base game version from 2.0.2 up to 2.43, then do I install Ice and Blood and then 2.65.1 then 2.65.2?

I'm a little late to this party, but no effing way you would get me climbing that thing! I used to work on cranes, I don't mind being up high is something secured, but just that climbing part at the top, GAH! lol Props to you, guys that do that sort of work do not get paid enough. I had no idea you were that bada$$!

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Happy b-day man!

I never played S1, wasn't into PCs when it was out. I got into Sacred 2 because I was losing my previous mistress, Hellgate:London. I have had so many problems with Sacred 2 I cannot even begin to go into details. Search the OF if you want to find all my problems. But I still have 3 or 4 hundred hours of game time in Sacred 2, although I never have taken a toon higher than lev 50 or so and never beaten the game. All my Sacred 2 problems have taken alot out of me on the franchise. I have not played it in a few months. Had I not had so many problems, I imagine I would have had 2000 horus in the game and beaten it many times by now. As far as S3, I will likely play it. But it won't be at launch. And hello everyone, I have missed you

your server was in the greyed out group. So there must be enough of a difference between the two builds. there was quite a few pre-built servers for 2.65.2, but anything else was no-go.

so is everyone playing on the 2.65.2 version, or the 2.65.1 still? I patched up one of my computers and got on the closed net and checked the 'all servers' box, and noticed a couple DARK servers with peeps on but still on the 2.65.1

GAH! I miss you guys! where is everyone :'(

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Welcome fellow! I am in the US, but I play the EU servers only since the Ice and Blood patched for the EU only. All my toons start with {SotW}, see you around

Great looking roster! Is it just the one page? Man, you guys need more peeps

Yessir, shiny = WIN!

Hey Smitty, been thinking about all the crashes you were having. did you check out the threads here on PhysX and Elite messing with Sacred2 after the 2.40 patch? oh yeah, been round and round that old oak tree. I have had fewer issues recently. It seems if I plan to just play solo on closed net doing grinding or whatever or playing LAN with the wife, I run on my main rig with all the eye candy (except elite gfx, given up on that). and when I want to participate in the Kami or lots of peeps online, I play on my side rig with crap gfx settings, but at least the crashes are much fewer.

Bummer that the Kami didn't go off as planned, but nice that I might get a chance to sneak into the 60s and make next Sunday

Even the unemployed guy sent some cookies I believe in supporting what you enjoy using!

Sounds like fun, but seeing as I have not completed the game yet, I cannot access the gold servers So, hopefully someday I can see you all in there

sucks I couldn't get there today

Steam is a fantastic platform, and likely a pre-cursor to the future of gaming. In the early days of it, it was a problematic delivery system. There was a lot of issues, and that is where it gets a stigma with some people that only know about it through either very early bad experience and they never looked at it again, or just heard from someone or soewhere that Steam "sucks" so they won't eve try it. Now its pretty much becoming a standard way of purchase, download, play for games. There are some games that are exclusively delivered through Steam, no box copies available. It's a money saver for one thing. Sometimes patches get delayed, but never a big deal for me. I currently have 30 games sitting on my Steam folder. From big names like Borderlands, to indie titles like Penumbra: Black Plague. You have to d-load the free Steam client. And games purchased through Steam are tied to you account, and you must have Steam to access and play them. If you have 5 computers between 5 different houses you go to all the time, you can install Steam there and you games are all sitting there waiting to be installed. Obviously you can only be playing on one of the computers, since you need to be logged in. But you can install on as many rigs as you want. There have been several awesome deals on that holiday sale. Like right now you can get 80 classic Atari games for $5.09, lol Then theres the games created by Valve (part of Steam) like the Half Life series which are some of the best loved games ever. Portal is another game everyone should own, and its 4.99 right now. I <3 Steam

Get things cleaned out, and then get http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ its free when you have a genuine Win OS installed. Works great with Win Firewall and with W7 should keep you pretty cozy. I have been bitten by those virus scanner things too. Just gotta watch out for them. Click anything on the popup will activate it. Sometime the popup just has to be there and your nailed. They don't happen very often, but even if you do a hard reset, that better than the alternative. and MSE doesn't interfere with Sacred 2. It will sometimes see an .exe for a game that it sees as a possible problem, but it only asks you to send the info about it to M-soft so it can be analyzed and determined to be ok. it has never denied anything I initiate.

I have had a mule account for quite some time now, I have 14 slots on it (orig 6 + two 3 packs + the two from Ice and Blood, 11 on my main (orig 6 + one 3 pack + the two from I&B_, and 9 also on my side rig acccount and my US account with I & B applied with the orig 6 + two from Ice and Blood. Really wish the US servers were up to 1.65.1 though, I miss my 49 dryad she rocks! So I may have to make a partition on my side rig to run the US servers at 1.64

Here ya go http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13381