[Question] Registry

[_fobos_]

Hey ya'll,

So I was just ******* around a little and bped on RegOpenKeyEx where Conquer tries to read account names from:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tqdigital\Accounts\

Only those keys don't exist? isn't it read from GameSetup.ini anyway?
I came across that because there's a check I noticed that compares the Conquer folder in the registry, I don't know if that's a check I don't want but I disabled it non the less. This is probably old but I just wondered if anyone knew why they try to read keys that don't exist, at least they don't on my computer.

Perhaps they're planning to save details in the registry in the future or what?

_fobos_

[majick]

Bot Makers pay attention to the registry lol the up coming anti bot will fail fast if that's there plan.

[_fobos_]

Thanks for your reply but that's not really a helpful answer, not to be a **** or anything
That's just speculation, I just want to know if anyone knows why they try to read from that registry spot I mentioned in my first post to read saved account ID's that aren't stored there but stored in an ini file, this is in my eyes no importance to anti bot measures.
I've already disabled the anti bot checks I could find and I'm just ******* around right now

[I don't have a username]

Probably from saved accounts.

[Korvacs]

This is something that they probably considered a long time ago and never implemented, the client is filled with things like this.

[Zeroxelli]

Actually, it was in fact used back in the early days of Conquer 1.0, because there was no GameSetup.ini before around 41XX

It was dropped because the password, email, security question, etc were also stored in a folder at that registry location.

Here's some screenshots of what the 4017 client added (before I lost the download, anyway. Also, changed password and such of course.)





Edit: Also, idk about the logs folder. Never had anything in it. But the accounts seemed to be named after the UniqueID

[_fobos_]

Originally Posted by Zeroxelli

Actually, it was in fact used back in the early days of Conquer 1.0, because there was no GameSetup.ini before around 41XX

It was dropped because the password, email, security question, etc were also stored in a folder at that registry location.

Here's some screenshots of what the 4017 client added (before I lost the download, anyway. Also, changed password and such of course.)





Edit: Also, idk about the logs folder. Never had anything in it. But the accounts seemed to be named after the UniqueID

This is the answer I was hoping for, thanks for satisfying my curious mind!

[Zeroxelli]

Originally Posted by _fobos_

This is the answer I was hoping for, thanks for satisfying my curious mind!

No problem, amazing what old data can remind you of.