To get game GTA (Grand Theft Auto) IV, the PC user’s system must be installed first SecuROM 7, although the manufacturer of these games claim that GTA IV may be walking in technology that have DRM (Digital Rights Management). Rockstar as the game maker GTA IV said that on IGN site where provide download installer SecuROM GTA IV, will not limit the number of installations or the number of computer games that will install SecuROM 7.
Rockstar has different way of working with EA, which does not use SecuROM 7. EA, the company that released game Spore, where the total number of the installer Spore and the PC download has been limited. GTA IV PC using the SecuROM protection for files. Exe game until the date of the launch of GTA IV officially announced. In addition, SecuROM also be used to ensure the game disk came from the original retail drives in the computer user, and users will use the Product Activation of the game. Product Activation is only done once for online authentication when installing the game GTA IV.
However, the use of SecuROM was not easy. SecuROM can cause problems to hardware, and even after the game will be remove from the system user, the uninstall process SecuROM also is not an easy task. In this case, Representative Rockstar said that if users want to uninstall and re-install GTA IV, they do not need to do more online authentication, unless the change in the CPU components, such as video card. SecuROM active function of these may have lost the installation of the game, but there is still a trace remaining installation.
