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SternburgExport, do piracy w Rockstar selling you cracked copies on Steam

Doesn’t even surprise me anymore. Rockstar has gone to shit.

Oha,

cant even play their legitly purchased SINGLEPLAYER games without internet connection.
I fucking hate rockstar

Infiltrated_ad8271,
@Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social avatar

Sometimes there is a trick that allows to play offline (I guess to bypass tags and restrictions), things like adding a line of text to a file, always a hassle and poorly documented.

Btw, I feel like telling that I deleted my rockstar account quite a while ago, they asked and re-asked nonsense, waiting from weeks to over a month between email and email, and the worst thing is that sometimes they were in chinese. It took me more than half a year to delete that crap.

glibg10b,

Sometimes there is a trick that allows to play offline (I guess to bypass tags and restrictions), things like adding a line of text to a file, always a hassle and poorly documented.

Pirating the game is a lot easier. The people getting punished are the ones who give Rockstar their money

SternburgExport,

Wait… WHAT?

Oha,
SternburgExport,

I’m already angry enough that they don’t let me spawn certain vehicles in singleplayer but this is too much. Time to get a cracked version and uninstall that Rockstar Launcher crap.

iturnedintoanewt, (edited ) do piracy w Starfield has been cracked
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

Hol-eee shit. My GTX 1070 doesn’t meet minimum requirements…and it just won’t boot? Oh wow.

mranachi,

Gamers nexus had gtx 1070 in their starfield performance review, so it can work on a 1070. 30fps on low settings I think though.

argv_minus_one,

Who the hell are they expecting is going to play this game? Only trust fund kids?

ddkman,

Like have you seen hw prices lately? The prices of these class of card simply crashed through the ground. 1070 are very cheap, the rx470-480 is barely sellable trash. A lot of time had passed since the 10series…

argv_minus_one,

Steam system requirements say RX5700 minimum. Recommended is RX6800XT, which was ludicrously expensive last I checked. Also I need a much newer CPU.

In this economy, that’s gonna be a no from me.

dustojnikhummer,

We knew the game would be demanding when MS announced 30FPS only on both consoles. And this time it isn’t a CPU bottleneck

ddkman,

But the 5700 is not an expensive gpu to buy second hand. Cpu asks for an ancient 6core or a 2nd gen ryzen. These aren’t unreasonable specs in 2023. Time has moved on. Sorry.

Mind you I have an ancient 6core and a 1080 class card.

thehellrocc,

Dude, the 1080 came out in 2016, that was just… oh.

Kit,

Adults with jobs?

argv_minus_one,

I’m an adult with a job, and I don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of affording the recommended system requirements for this game any time soon. RX6800XTs do not grow on trees.

Awoo,

It runs like absolute crap. I have a 2070 with i9-12900k and 64gb ram and get 30fps on the LOWEST settings. That’s it.

I run Elden Ring at 120fps and just got done with Armored Core that ran at 144fps rock solid medium settings all the way through without a single blip.

The performance is unbelievably atrocious.

WhyIDie,

I was legitimately impressed at how well AC6 runs on my machine. FromSoftware’s come a long way from the original PC release of dark souls 1

Awoo,

Yeah it runs rock solid. I get the impression FS must have good employee retention and have very good methods for building employee skills, so over time they’ve only improved. On top of hiring and acquiring some of the best staff that must have existed in other Japanese studios. No idea how they actually treat the employees, could be like shit because it’s Japanese work culture, but something about them is producing content that is consistently a cut above everything. They’re getting up there like Rockstar in terms of quality but based in Japan instead of the UK.

HellAwaits,

It’ll burn your house down

darkeox,
leftzero,

If you’ve got windows 10 try updating to 22h2 (no, really; a consequence of Bethesda being acquired by Microsoft, I suspect), and update your GPU drivers.

That got it running on my 980ti, so it should also work with the 1070.

lud,

Or it’s a consequence of the fact that all earlier windows 10 (non enterprise) versions are end of service.

I highly doubt it’s done intentionally. 21H2 probably misses a feature or they just didn’t care about 21H2 because why should they.

iturnedintoanewt,
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

Yeah, I think it’s probably having to do with how Wine/Lutris emulates the Windows version, that makes it think it’s an older version. I’ll try on a real Windows partition…

devious,

Did u try adding it as a non-steam game directly on Steam and not using Lutris? I’ve tried both on my EndeavourOS PC and find that for whatever reason, it runs much better via Steam vs Lutris.

Double_A,
@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

The 1070 is the official minimum requirement.

McNasty,

1070Ti

justastranger,

Been trying to run it on an rx480 and it hiccups and crashes so much lol

Catradora_Stalinism, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked

Imma wait for the fitgirl repack

Schadrach,

fitgirl repack

Looks like it’s already out.

Catradora_Stalinism,

yass already have it seeded

vagrantprodigy, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked

Wonder if the cracked version crashes when starting a new game like the steam version does…

beirut_bootleg,

Kill any overlay apps like MSI. Process Explorer can crash it too. Just kill everything. Had this issue with FO76.

vagrantprodigy,

No overlays running, still crashes. I’m seeing quite a few people reporting this online, both with AMD and Nvidia, and of course Intel cards don’t work at all on this game.

Techmaster,

Is anybody on earth stupid enough to buy an Intel GPU?

ObiGynKenobi,

Anyone who wants AC Mirage and Nightingale? Anyone who supports disrupting the duopoly that, driven by corporate greed, has effectively priced the “budget card” out of existence over the last decade? Those 2 are just off the top of my head.

If I was in the market for a GPU, I’d probably buy Intel Battlemage on principle. At least then I can criticize the current state of the GPU industry without being hypocritical.

TheOakTree,

Awful shortsighted of a comment from a self-proclaimed “Techmaster” lol

Techmaster,

Guess I found one.

milkjug,
@milkjug@beehaw.org avatar

Devs: “it works fine on my machine”. At this point games should just come with their own OSes. Or hardware. Hell, ship 'em like arcade boxes.

cloud, do piracy w Rockstar selling you cracked copies on Steam

What i’m looking at? What is this from?

wahming,

Hidden text within the app code from the steam folder

cloud,

So the official files contains a razor 1911 line? This look sus af

wahming,

In what sense? Incompetence, dodginess, or fake screenshot?

u202307011927,

Anyone know what RAZOR 1911 stands for or means, anyways?

naught,

It’s a group that cracks stuff for 🏴‍☠️

enki,

What a fucking nostalgia bomb. Haven’t been a part of the scene for a very long time, so seeing RAZOR 1911 in the hex triggered a flashback. They were huge back when I was running a “warez” BBS as a kid in the 90s.

Klear,

Good old dos game cracks bundles with funky demos.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

1911 which translates to 777 in hexadecimal.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

In Unix's chmod, change-access-mode command, the octal value 777 grants all file-access permissions to all user types in a file.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Within the binary of the file *

wahming,

Yes, I was trying to keep it to a non-technical ELI5

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Let's educate the world 🌍🎉

AlboTheGuy,
@AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl avatar

To be fair, if you don’t know what that is at a glance you probably don’t know what the binary of a file is either

merc,

When you view or edit a text (.txt) file in a text editor like Notepad, you’re most often opening a file in ASCII encoding that uses the ASCII binary values for common letters, numbers and punctuation. The only values allowed in that kind of file are lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers and punctuation.

You can also view or edit binary files, like executables (.exe), but you typically need a hex editor. If you tried to open a binary file in a plain text editor it wouldn’t know how to handle all the binary values that are not part of the standard ASCII set of letters, numbers and punctuation.

Hex editors show the data in hexadecimal format. They convert the binary data to numbers from 0 to 15 where the numbers 10 to 15 are replaced by the letters A to F. Often to make it clear people are talking about the hex number they add “0x” in front of the number. So, 0 becomes 0x0, 9 becomes 0x9, 15 becomes 0xF, 16 becomes 0x10, and 255 becomes 0xFF. This is an efficient way for people to work with binary data because 16 is 2^4^ or 222*2.

Within binary files, there will still be a lot of sections that are in ASCII. For example, any error messages that have to be printed out for the user to see, like “this program cannot be operated in DOS mode”.

Razor 1911 is an infamous cracker group that has been around for decades. They often “sign” the programs they crack by putting “Razor 1911” inside the files, in a way where you can see it if you open it with a hex editor, but so it doesn’t affect the program.

So, what this is suggesting is that a program that Rockstar has released on Steam is not something they built themselves, but they’re actually distributing a cracked version that was released by Razor 1911.

Blxter, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked
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Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did.

Entropy,

None of them do. It would fuck with people’s ability to make mods for them.

Blxter,
!deleted4407 avatar

True. I guess I thought that because “ghost wire Tokyo” and “redfall” do. But makes sense for a game like starfield to not

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

Bethesda is a publisher as well which explains that

Entropy,

Yeah those games are only published by Bethesda, not developed. Their in house games never have DRM, unless you count steam.

Rayspekt,

redfall

Best copyright protection for Redfall is that the game is shit and nobody wants to play it.

AtomicPurple,
@AtomicPurple@kbin.social avatar

Which sucks, because Arkane was one of my favorite developers before the quality of their output fell off over the past five years. I loved the Dishonored games, and Prey is the single best immersive sim ever made. I was looking forward to DeathLoop, but it ended up being kinda meh, and Redfall has been so universally panned that I haven't even bothered to try it.

Holzkohlen,

I read that most of the people working there were kinda just hoping it would get canceled eventually. The game industry is so normal and fine.

dustojnikhummer,

Those aren’t BGS games. Bethesda that developes =/= bethesda that publishes. The latter likes DRM

dustojnikhummer,

Not necessairly (well, goodbye to Starfield Script Extender in that case). But I think it’s more that Gamebryo can’t integrate Denuvo lol

argv_minus_one,

It would also be unplayably slow. Bethesda games aren’t known for performance even without Denuvo slowing them down.

dustojnikhummer,

Lets not pretend that there aren’t Denuvo games without performance issues…

argv_minus_one,

Unless I’m mistaken, Denuvo constantly encrypts and decrypts everything in the process’ memory, including executable code, in order to conceal it. There is no way to do that without massive performance overhead.

dustojnikhummer,

There are uncracked Denuvo games to this day that don’t have performance issues. Not everyone is incompetent in implementing it. That doesn’t mean I’m defending it (but Reddit/Lemmy will like to take any sort of non-attack as defense sooooo), I’m just saying that there are Denuvo games that don’t suffer performance issues.

argv_minus_one,

Now imagine how fast they’d be without Denuvo.

hexaflexagonbear,
@hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net avatar

Steam/windows store drm it seems.

dustojnikhummer,

Bethesda Game Studios games don’t have DRM like Denuvo. BGS and Bethesda Softworks are two different entities. ID, MachineGames and other Zenimax studios tend to have DRM, not BGS.

On the other hand, didn’t Denuvo come out after Fallout 4 launched? So what would they even protect, 76?

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

No, Denuvo was first used in Sept. 2014 and Fallout 4 came out Nov. 2015.

dustojnikhummer,

Why did you start with No?

leftzero,

“Didn’t Denuvo come out after Fallout 4 launched?”

No, it came out a bit more than a year earlier.”

BeeCoffee, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked
@BeeCoffee@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

The amount of leachers are a sight to see

Serinus,

The four day head start thing being bullshit was a good point. But yeah, I’m not likely to pirate an executable any time soon.

BeeCoffee,
@BeeCoffee@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Time and money consuming, new hard drive, install windows, install the exe and check if that wasn’t a malware, or a VM, GPU pass trough, install win and starfield

Serinus,

Yeah, this is probably the way I’d go about it. Dedicated hard drive, separate/no network access, no access to other files. Who cares if it is malware if it can’t get to anything.

BurnedDonutHole, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked

And even it’s cracked from I won’t be able to play it thanks to my old as system and my lack of will to purchase a new one untill it dies.

Qualanqui,

Haha I was thinking along similar lines, my R5 1600 is either going to take to it with it’s usual shrug while it rolls up it’s sleeves or just explode, it still punches way above it’s weight so hopefully it won’t explode but she’s getting a bit long in the tooth.

MattsAlt,
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Same 😭

jjsca, do gaming w A truly cursed Zelda bug...

My brand!

bionicjoey,

I have special eyes!

BlackLaZoR, do games w *Everyone liked that*
@BlackLaZoR@fedia.io avatar

Everyone liked that

Except that one grumpy guy complaining about being shot

Kichae,

Oh, he’s not complaining anymore.

uberdroog,
@uberdroog@lemmy.world avatar

His wife says on the news, “He loved life” so…

Semi_Hemi_Demigod,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

He can submit a complaint to the complaints department by phone between 10am and 4pm mountain time Tuesdays and thursdays. Expected response is 2-5 business months.

UlyssesT, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked
Kolanaki, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked
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Does this mean I can pirate it early? 😮

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

Something is available, whether or not its safe is another story.

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

I got nothing to care about. I can nuke my drives at any time and not feel the loss. Plus Dauphong has never let me down.

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

Alrighty well feel free to reach out, I'll be heading to bed in a second here but magnets are just so interesting it's worth discussing

Kolanaki, (edited )
!deleted6508 avatar

Nothing popped up when scanning it. Not even the crack being flagged as a crack.

Game runs like ass tho. Everything but my GPU meets recommended. I still have a 1660 Super. Get anywhere between 30 and 60 with low settings, depending on where I am and what’s going on. First game in a while to just cripple my shit. 😩

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

It's running well for SWIM but the hardware is a 5800X3D and a 3080 so it would be a shame if it didn't.

Some areas are another than others though, classic Skyrim

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

It’s weird how being in a small room gets me about 32 fps, but then going outside into a forest I get 60. Usually it’s the other way around, with interiors being the faster zone. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve seen some others getting similar results on a 3080 with the same CPU (Rysen 5 3600X) I have though, so now I’m not even sure upgrading my hardware would make a difference and it’s probably just classic Bethesda optimizations.

Entropy,

It’s up on IPT already

KevinDeRodeTovenaar,

What is IPT?

matey,

IPTorrents, a private BitTorrent tracker.

Zoidsberg,
@Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca avatar

Shhh

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yes, but it’s huge, over 100GB. BG3 all over again!

barrbaric, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked

Huh, the game isn’t even out yet. 🏴‍☠️ stay winning, I guess.

hexaflexagonbear,
@hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net avatar

It’s out on (paid) early access. Think that’s how they got the game files lol.

samus12345, (edited )
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

As soon as anyone can download a game, all pirates can too (unless Denuvo)!

iturnedintoanewt, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

Is RUNE or IGGAMESCOM trustworthy?

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’ve never had a problem with them.

Abraxiel,

Rune is. A lot of people don’t like IGG, but I’ve never had a problem with it. You gotta be good at dealing with ads and such though.

Ilandar,

RUNE cracked Baldur’s Gate 3 recently.

ObiGynKenobi,

Imagine cracking a game that’s already on gog lmao

Distant_Foreground,

Your comment and username have made my day so far.

ObiGynKenobi,

Glad I could brighten your day, friend :) Thanks for sharing

Amir,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

Which is DRM free…

MaliciousKebab, do piracy w Starfield has been cracked

They fast as fuck. Another W for the pirates.

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