Cant run ‘EAsetup.exe’ for Burnout Paradise

EZ all, today I was trying to install Burnout paradise again, but the installer kept acting like I had the game already installed. So I double checked the games folder and noticed a burnout paradise folder, with a few megs worth of left over data files (god know why they were there), so I deleted all of them and tried again. The same thing happened, so, like an idiot, I went marching into the registry and deleted every reference connected to burnout and criterion (Im usually sensible with registry editing), the same thing you have to do to uninstall old full-rip games.
The big problem is, that I must have deleted something to do with recognising the setup.exe inside the burnout ISO. Now, when I try to run EAsetup from the image, a CMD prompt appears for 1 second then closes, and thats it, nothing.
The funny thing is, every other ISO file I try the same thing on, works fine. Its not like I could’ve deleted any detrimental system key, because I only touched burnout paradise keys, which obviously weren’t there before I first installed the game, but now the setup just doesn’t function, and the picture thats supposed to show up on the ‘AUTORUN’ program, is just some text saying ‘this image must be exactly (xxxx)x(xxxx) resolution, and is loaded from autorun.bmp for other languages blah blah etc’
It makes no sense whatsoever, its almost as if to say you need to have some burnout paradise registry keys on the computer, before you can install the game, but how can there be any said keys, when the game isn’t even installed? Its like the ultimate contradictive paradox.
I wanted to test this game on my new DDR5 gfx card, so please, any advice is as welcome as possible!
Thanks :mrredhat:
Answer #1
Since Burnout Paradise installs securom you might want to start there. Google “completely remove securom” and find the tools and reg edits you’ll need.
Answer #2
deleted something to do with recognising the setup.exe inside the burnout ISO
it will be hard for us to know what part of the registry you deleted that should not have been deleted.
Have you tried your most recent system restore??
Answer #3
Thanks but dont most modern games use securom? If I get rid of it, does that mean every other game that uses it will stop working and I’ll have to re-install them all (cracked or uncracked)?