I’ve been getting into mass effect trilogy finally, and since I don’t own a gaming pc, I like to play through GeForce Now.
Well, just now I had some things come up a couple of times a row and I quit my game a few times, and now I can’t continue because of some sort of lock mechanism against playing on multiple computers…?
Did not know this is a thing, but I have a few vacation days and wanted to get this series properly started, so it’s a little bit annoying. Who knows how long I have to wait?
Ugh…
Edit:
Talking with EA support, they informed me that the wait is 24 hours. Jesus christ that is long for something like this. There goes my vacation day opportunity…
Edit2:
Wow! The customer support really pulled through, suggested they request a password change on my account from their side.
Turns out, this seems to toggle that flag, and I could now start the game! Hooray! Akash, my man, you saved the day! Cheers 🍻
You know you’re buying software from a quality developer when their own software refers to their game as
DisplayName field missing from registry.
I’m 100% for piracy, but you forgot the step where the game you’re pirating has been provided by 1500 other trackers and 1461 of those have been modified to bundle malware/spyware/ransomware…etc many users may never notice it, a lot will be caught by antivirus, but some will not.
Edit: I’m a software dev branching into security. The more I learn the harder it gets to find the actual source for cracked software and the more I notice just how sketch most are.
Example: It’s not a great policy to eat whatever food you find first, regardless of where it was and who made it, and hope your immune system (antivirus example) takes care of it. Eventually you’ll get burnt.
It sounds like you’ve been browsing some pretty sketchy websites. I have yet to find malware bundled in torrents from trustworthy trackers. And I’ve been pirating for many years.
I see EA is out of ideas for naming their games, and has started naming their game "DisplayName field¨.
“Field missing from registry”, one of my favourite franchises, is now owned by EA? Ugh. 😩
As much as I hate EA and everything they stand for, their customer support has pulled through for me on more than one occasion. Props to them
Do you have any PC at all? Mass Effect should even run on weaker PCs.
But yeah, these kinds of problems are why I won’t bother with cloud gaming. Have you contacted support?
This seems like an obvious bug with the licensing check in the game, or maybe an oversight by nvidia. (bug because one would think it would be adjusted for geforcenow) Why dont you contact nvidia customer service? Ive never used geforce now, but their shield departement is really good.
I did contact NVIDIA customer support too, but haven’t heard back since the ticket was not real-time chat. EA customer support was a chat though, and resolved the problem for me 😌
I’ll see what NVIDIA responds back. I think this might have some work for steam too, since I play this EA game via steam, but EA is not officially playable via GFN, but steam is. So I think there’s a lot of complications there to shift through.
I did try to contact steam too, but they have no contact info for this kind of problem, rather forwarded to EA.
Ah, I can see how this could happen. Each time you log on you get a different VM and EA didn’t think about that before tossing the game up on geforce now (assuming that’s how it works; never used the service. If you installed the game yourself then I guess it sucks that’s how their DRM works).
Well I don’t think this is true, I used proton and still got this error
Did you happen to run it with different versions of proton? Each version would possibly be identified as a different “system”.
I think not
Genuinely curious since my games stack there automatically. Is it a good launcher? I’ve never looked into it more than updating my graphics cards.
You may be thinking of the GeForce Experience app.
Piracy is completely justified.
How would that help in this case?
Not having to deal with EA’s bullshit
OP said they don’t have a gaming PC, meaning something capable of playing games at full spec
Pffft, just download some more RAM. You’d download a car, wouldn’t you? 😂
Piracy is never justified. The solution is to not buy or use games from EA if anything.
In our society piracy is always justified
Fuck every last one of these corporations
How so? You are supporting them using their software.
*their
But it doesn’t support them when they don’t see income from it. You don’t even register as a number on their side, likely
You are still supporting them by using a product from them. It doesn’t matter if you are paying or not.
Not paying them means you are not supporting them
If you even use the software you are supporting them. The only way not to is a complete boycott
Cloud gaming is trash
Fair enough, it’s certainly worse than the alternative.
However, when unable to exercise the alternative, it’s nice to have an option to still experience and play games.
That’s what you get for subscribing to something you could be getting for free.
Not that I don’t agree with you, but that comment is kinda snarky
They state they don’t have a gaming computer and play it through geforce now, is that actually possible for free?
