New version installed: checking file X/1685

[MinzioneSpeciale]

Dear Team17,
you deserve the utmost honours to develop Worms series.
Me and my friends experience a very annoying problem with Worms Revolution. Any time we start the game, a pop-up window tells us that a "new" version is installed and then a file check runs for 1685 files (always the same file number). Actually, there is no new version installed.
Would you mind to tell us how to avoid this useless check?
I use the Steam version on Win10 OS.
Thank you for your kindness.

P.s.: One of my geeky friends suggests that the program hasn't got the right permissions to write a "check == done" flag.

[Nocalora]

Luckily, As I had to crack the game's CRC Check to mod the game this issue also got fixed on our end. Here is the modified WormsReloaded.exe: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1e8wfvQgN0AneWgi0UreBrU5xkXxFV3wO

Here is also a VirusTotal result of the exe (incase you don't trust it): https://www.virustotal.com/#/file-analysis/ZDE0MWI4NGExOGNkZTBmZTk1MmFkYmQ2MGVmNjgyYjg6MTUxOTM0NDg5Mg==
(Never heard of Cyclane personally, but I don't know what it has "detected" in the game assembly other than some JMP's (Jumps) to skip the check-part)

I can also supply instructions on how to manually remove the check. It only requires an x32 Debugger like OllyDebugger 2, or x32Dbg.

[MST]

Patch made by @Nicalora doesn't work properly. It hides checking files dialog box at the beginning, but the files are actually still being checked in the background, which causes the game to slow down after launch.

Proper ways are:

1. By registry entries (recommended, easier)

a) Open notepad, paste following lines:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Team17 Software Ltd.\Worms Reloaded\CrcCheck]
"lastVersionChecked"=dword:ffffffff

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Team17 Software Ltd.\Worms Reloaded\CrcCheck]
"lastVersionChecked"=dword:ffffffff

b) save it as fix.reg (make sure that file extension is .reg)
c) doubleclick saved fix.reg, then agree to allow import registry settings
d) done


2. By patching WormsReloaded.exe (less recommended)

a) open WormsReloaded.exe from your game directory with hex editor you like (HxD, WinHex...)
b) go to offset 0x97942 (97942 in hex)
c) change bytes: 7507 to 9090
d) go to offset 0x9794A (9794A in hex)
e) change byte: 01 to 00
f) save changes
h) done