Thoughts about crashes on pirated game copies

[LBYPatrick]

Hi all,

I am thinking about not to call any methods in steam_api.h when having non-genuine game copies since all piracy groups bypasses steam DRM by having awful emulators, and these emulators might not support all steam features since it was only for bypassing purposes.

I really wanted to modify the code to make this happen (Since I have experience with C++) but there is no way for telling whether the user is pirating the game and SpecialK is not open-source, so I was not able to make it work without manual user configuration.

I do own NieR: Automata on steam, but years ago I was pirating this game

[Aemony]

Special K is open-source, but because of the fradulent reports of pirates the GitHub repository was taken down. The source code is now hosted on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/Kaldaien/SpecialK

As for disabling Steam API related enhancements, that functionality is already built into Special K/FAR, but not obvious since Kaldaien have never gotten around to renaming it.

Open dinput8.ini, scroll down to [Steam.Log] and change Silent=false to Silent=true. This will disable all use of the Steam API related enhancements, including the Steam API DLL validation check that third-party emulators fall over on.

[LBYPatrick]

Then...Should we put this piece of information in README?