You may be able to redeem your original Serial Number (product key), found at the back at the CD's manual. Steam).ĭuring seasonal sales, you can often purchase the game for as little as $5. In the case of GOG, the game is currently sold DRM free, meaning it starts by itself without a client service (e.g. It's also fully patched and doesn't use the same method of copy protection, so you can install KB3086255 without issue and play the game as normal. This comes as a download without the need for the CD to start. Online retailers such as GOG or Steam offer a digital version of SimCity 4 Deluxe. Security update for the graphics component in Windows NOTE: This shouldn't impact users of a digital based game, such as from GOG or Steam, as these don't rely on the same copy protection.įull details of the update are as follows: It would seem the update simply disables the service, rather than removing secdrv.sys completely (like Windows 10 has). Many other legacy games are also affected. Following the trend of Windows 10, Microsoft has released security update KB3086255 for Windows 7, Windows 8.1 & Windows Vista.ĭue to "security concerns", this intentionally disables the service which runs the secdrv.sys driver – a component of the SafeDisk protection which SC4 uses.Īs a result, this prevents the disk-based (CD) version of SimCity 4 from running, and you may receive an "Access Denied - Please login with administrator privileges and try again" or similar permissions error.
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