Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods
Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods
What an update to an old Resident Evil game on Steam means for Capcom’s approach to PC mods
DRM in old games so you are only affecting people that bought the game? Genius
It's a bummer we can't decline Steam Game updates anymore. That would help avoid these types of situations. Being forced to update a game before launching it was always going to lead to this type of bullshit. Same with all the GTA fuckery.
In case anyone needs it, you can actually downgrade Steam games. It just doesn't have an UI unfortunately.
There's a tool for it here: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader
SteamDB can be used to find the game ID and depot ID: https://steamdb.info/
Steam itself will not care if the game files are not up to date, individual games might.
You don't even need the external tool, you can use the Steam terminal itself to download the depots, which I personally find more palatable than having another application that is getting access to my username and password (it needs those to get the access from Steam). Even though I don't think that tool is malicious I would still prefer to not have to rely on it.
- Go to SteamDB, and search up your game.
- Click on the app ID of the game you're looking for to go to its details page.
- Take a look at the depots, and click on the depot ID of the one that looks like the one you want to download.
- Click on the Manifests tab. Look at the list and find the version that you want to download. Record its manifest ID.
- Open the Steam console. You can do this by opening a command window "Run" by pressing «Win + R» and then enter the command: steam://open/console, and then press Enter, or by opening any browser and enter the URL-address field write the same command: steam://open/console. You can even have it always available when you start Steam by appending
-consoleto the launch options of the shortcut to the Steam exe. - The syntax to the "download_depot" command is as follows:
download_depot [] [] []: download a single depot
You only need to worry about the first three arguments to it. Type the command, then the app ID, depot ID, and the manifest ID of the depot version you want. - Wait for Steam to download the depot. You won't see any indication of progress, but you can tell it's downloading by looking at the network usage on your downloads page. The download can pause/resume if your connection goes out, but won't if you restart the client.
- After the download is done, Steam will show you where the files were downloaded to.
- Go to the game's installation directory, and move the files somewhere else. Then go to where the depot files were downloaded to, and move everything over to the game folder.
- You may have to rename the game's EXE file if the dev changed the launch options recently. You can find the current EXE name by going to the game's SteamDB page and clicking on the Configuration tab. 11. You should now be able to launch the old version through Steam.
Personally I found that you can just start the game from the download location and it will still have the Steam overlay if the game basically uses Steam as DRM.
Fantastic! Cheers for the info
What's that you say Capcom? Never purchase another title from you again? Well, if that's how you want it, I suppose.
Ill just make sure to never, ever buy those titles and juat pirate them instead. Thanks Capcom!
I’d already left a couple of reviews on re5 and re revelations expressing my discontent. But otherwise there are more older collections that actually have that drm applied.
Oh no. How dares somebody to enhance his single player experience with mods. Let's forbid them to modify a SP game they bought, this can't backfire, right?
Just moving away from this toxic company and it's product would be best solution.