When the user tried to launch the game after its installation had completed the Zero Day Piracy Protection Tool would be launched instead. It relied on an online service to decrypt critical AES-128 encrypted game files that were stored on the disc. Zero Day Piracy Protection (ZDPP) was an additional DRM check used to prevent pre-release access to games through their retail copies.
7 List of games formerly using Games for Windows - LIVEĪctivation limit between 10-20 (usually 15) for online profiles. 6.1 Only on the Games for Windows Marketplace. 6 List of games using Games for Windows - LIVE. 5.4.6 DNS lookup failed to locate the LIVE servers. 5.4.4 Password contains special characters. 5.3 Games not saving under Windows 8 and newer. 5.2 Corrupted file error during ZDPP check. 
5.1 Crashes, errors, impossible to log-in. Last we heard, New Vegas was on track to ship for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 this fall. If you don’t even have a DVD drive, you can just take the CD-Key from the box, enter it into Steam, and download it without ever using the disc at all.īergman adds that, after reviewing different copy protection schemes, Obsidian concluded that Steam provided the "best, least intrusive experience" on the PC. Not only that, but once the game has activated on Steam, you can throw out the game DVD entirely and just download the game over Steam. However you can install the game on as many systems as you want (with no restrictions!), and you do not have to be online to play the game after your initial activation. And yes, you will have to be online at the time of that initial install. Yes, you will have to install Steam when you install Fallout: New Vegas if you don’t already have it. So what does that mean? We’ve implemented Steamworks in as light and unobtrusive a way as possible. Use of Steam will be mandatory at retail. Four months after announcing Fallout: New Vegas, the latest game in the Fallout series, Bethesda has started talking about the copy protection it’s going to use.Īccording to a fan interview with Bethesda Senior Producer Jason Bergman, New Vegas will use Valve Software’s Steamworks scheme-not just for digital rights management, but for other functionality, as well:įallout: New Vegas uses Steamworks for achievements and other features (such as friends lists, cloud storage of user preferences and so on). The people at Bethesda Softworks and Obsidian Entertainment aren’t sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
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