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Lol I had the same problem briefly, when I chose to do more training before starting the mission. Then I realised that I had to go outside, turn right and walk past the guy guarding the stairs, get up close to the low barrier beside the crate, and press the "V" key to go over the low barrier (i.e. obstacle course) and head to the training area of the ship. Might be something to consider trying if you selected to do more training after the initial mission briefing. Oh yeah, and the other thing I had to do to get into the real mission was to talk to the guy with the aviator sunglasses next to the chopper on the deck... Again, it may be obvious or something you've already tried, but sometimes the obvious isn't so obvious. :)

Fenix, as far as I know, it's the publisher who makes the decisions on the copy protection, not the game developers. So one idiot middle manager in a publishing company that never has to use the product can completely mess up the reputation of the developer by choosing a lousy "copy protection" that interferes with regular system use. Of course, this also means that those of us who actually PAY FOR the software lose out the most, since we're the only ones affected.

Ok, thanks for clarifying that. But I can't help but think how STUPID that is. I mean, come on, it's a Microsoft tool! Someone should make those idiots at SecuROM actually try to play some games that are "protected" by their software, and see how much THEY like it. It's really a shame that publishers use rubbish "copy protections" like StarForce and SecuROM. Publishers who use such broken software not only have to spend more money to publish the product, but also by using them, they tarnish the reputations of the game developers, who get accused of producing a buggy product!

Yup, I'm having similar issues... I get the following error message: A required security module cannot be activated. This program cannot be executed (5024). Please have a look at http://www.securom.com/message.asp?m=module&c=5024 for further, more detailed information. When I check out the details on the SecureROM site, it says the following: SecuROMâ„¢ has determined that a File/Reg Mon program is present is running in the background. Please close this program before you start the application. Please deactivate it properly (don't forget to unhide virtual drives before exiting). You do not need to uninstall this software; it is enough to disable them during game play. To 'unhide' remaining virtual drives, you might need to re-install the appropriate tool. The only thing I have/had running that even resembles anything like that is Process Explorer -- previously from SysInternals, now from Microsoft. I can't see any other programmes running that might resemble a file/reg monitoring programme, so does this mean that the new version of SecuROM is now incompatible with Process Explorer (even though it's now officially owned by Microsoft)? If so, who do we complain to in the SecuROM and 505 Interactive teams?