which windows 7 update removes support for disc based securom?

[andreasaspenberg575]

i have several games that still use it so, when i shal update windows, i need to avoid installing that update. what update is it?

[Blaagh]

afaik its not removed - you just have to start/stop the service by hand

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No they never did any such updates.

In 2021 I still had a PC with Win7 and all the latest updates and old games that used that still worked juat fine.

Win8 and later do not support such games by it should be removed anyways if you go buy a digital copy of such a game.

[The_Abortionator]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

No they never did any such updates.

In 2021 I still had a PC with Win7 and all the latest updates and old games that used that still worked juat fine.

Win8 and later do not support such games by it should be removed anyways if you go buy a digital copy of such a game.

They literally did. Could you not even be bothered to use google?

[andreasaspenberg575]

it is used by aliens versurs predator 2 and ghost master, both of which works in windows 8.1 for me. that means that i have yet to install that update in windows 8.1. i just want to know what it is called, so that i can avoid it. i tried searching first but, i did not find the information.

[bidulless]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

i have several games that still use it so, when i shal update windows, i need to avoid installing that update. what update is it?

hello

None i think, it's more something that happened on w10 if i remember well.

[_I_]

i dont think 7 ever supported securom

[Blaagh]

jeez.. ok I caved in and did the GOOGLE FOR YOU

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/ms15-097-description-of-the-security-update-for-the-graphics-component-in-windows-september-8-2015-6a1e4fc4-0821-79d4-d25c-02728a6fdf30

see the section about starting secdrv

[A&A]

The update just disabled it in Win 7, later it got removed in windows 10 1903, I don't remember. KB3086255?

Open the registry editor and search HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\secdrv
If you still have it, click on the Dword "Start" and if it says 4 (disabled), change it to 2 (automatic)

If you don't have it, look for patches/mods/fixes.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

i have several games that still use it so, when i shal update windows, i need to avoid installing that update. what update is it?

No Windows update removes support for SecuROM because it has always been driverless. There is that 2015 update mentioned that makes the SafeDisc driver by default disabled.

For your SafeDisc games, look into https://github.com/RibShark/SafeDiscShim for an alternative, assuming it even works in Windows 7.

[The_Abortionator]

Originally posted by _I_:

i dont think 7 ever supported securom

It literally did, every Windows release did until Microsoft blocked it. Stop making things up.

[The_Abortionator]

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

i have several games that still use it so, when i shal update windows, i need to avoid installing that update. what update is it?

No Windows update removes support for SecuROM because it has always been driverless. There is that 2015 update mentioned that makes the SafeDisc driver by default disabled.

For your SafeDisc games, look into https://github.com/RibShark/SafeDiscShim for an alternative, assuming it even works in Windows 7.

Please don't make things up. Needing or not needing a driver means nothing. No sure why you even blurted that out.

MS blocked securom for security reasons. Learn to read.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by The_Abortionator:

Originally posted by Crashed:

No Windows update removes support for SecuROM because it has always been driverless. There is that 2015 update mentioned that makes the SafeDisc driver by default disabled.

For your SafeDisc games, look into https://github.com/RibShark/SafeDiscShim for an alternative, assuming it even works in Windows 7.

Please don't make things up. Needing or not needing a driver means nothing. No sure why you even blurted that out.

MS blocked securom for security reasons. Learn to read.

You just made that one up; PCGamingWiki even points out that SecuROM is not blocked. Last I checked my disc copy of GTA San Andreas works just as well as it did back in Windows XP.

Source: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/SecuROM#:~:text=Still%20works%20on%20newer%20versions%20of%20Windows%2C%20despite%20erroneous%20reports%20of%20the%20contrary

[A&A]

Originally posted by Crashed:

You just made that one up; PCGamingWiki even points out that SecuROM is not blocked. Last I checked my disc copy of GTA San Andreas works just as well as it did back in Windows XP.

Source: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/SecuROM#:~:text=Still%20works%20on%20newer%20versions%20of%20Windows%2C%20despite%20erroneous%20reports%20of%20the%20contrary

Good luck running games like the command and conquer series (the issue appears only if you have physical copies)
In some cases it is necessary and in others it is not. ;)

[Crashed]

They misidentified SecuROM in those articles. The links directing to Microsoft say nothing about SecuROM, only Safedisc or secdrv.sys the Safedisc driver.

In addition, the driver in question can be reinstalled with PowerShell scripts - https://github.com/ericwj/PsSecDrv

[andreasaspenberg575]

it is better to just avoid installing the update.