RS2014-Mod-Installer thinks my game is pirated.

[Scatterbrain71]

  I installed CDLC last week.  Everything worked fine up until today and I was forced to reinstall Rocksmith 2014 on my computer due to it crashing on startup.  I reinstalled and confirmed the game is working just fine.   I now want to use RS2014-Mod-install to get all these additional songs back and when I "Click to Unlock CDLC" it says "CustomForge doesn't support pirated /stolen copies of Rocksmith 2014".  It then opens my browser to the Steam page (which says its in my library).  How is it checking for a stolen copy?  There is literally no difference in how I installed the game last week and today.

[coldrampage]

36 minutes ago, Scatterbrain71 said:

  I installed CDLC last week.  Everything worked fine up until today and I was forced to reinstall Rocksmith 2014 on my computer due to it crashing on startup.  I reinstalled and confirmed the game is working just fine.   I now want to use RS2014-Mod-install to get all these additional songs back and when I "Click to Unlock CDLC" it says "CustomForge doesn't support pirated /stolen copies of Rocksmith 2014".  It then opens my browser to the Steam page (which says its in my library).  How is it checking for a stolen copy?  There is literally no difference in how I installed the game last week and today.

New update broke the piracy check/cdlc and rs-mods. Use the beta branch and reinstall the dll + rs-mods.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rocksmith/comments/xa49mq/important_update_coming_to_rocksmith_2014/

[bfe]

50 minutes ago, coldrampage said:

New update broke the piracy check/cdlc and rs-mods. Use the beta branch and reinstall the dll + rs-mods.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rocksmith/comments/xa49mq/important_update_coming_to_rocksmith_2014/

Hi... Thanks for the solution, but Im unsure of how to do what you suggest. how do i go about reinstalling them through betas? or have I misunderstood your meaning?

[Mineria]

1 hour ago, bfe said:

Hi... Thanks for the solution, but Im unsure of how to do what you suggest. how do i go about reinstalling them through betas? or have I misunderstood your meaning?

Taken from the post on reddit:

In our testing we noticed that some players who use Rocksmith 2014 with other programs may experience stability issues. For those players we've added a temporary legacy branch on Steam that can be accessed with the password "JustInCaseWeNeedIt". We only recommend using this branch if you experience issues after this latest update. Once those stability issues are resolved, we'll phase out this branch."

Might want to read the replies below that post, like how to disable auto updates for the game.
Good idea take a backup of the working modified game to, maybe we need to run 2014 in offline mode in the future, since it seems like UBI will block what they add to subscription-based RS+ instead of making DLC's available as a onetime purchase for RS 2014.
The RS+ library is pretty poor even with the claimed added 7000+ songs, almost all of the 183 Custom Forge songs I downloaded aren't even there.
Not sure how many songs RS 2014 comes with, but 439 minus those are DLC's I purchased, pretty much against their subscription-based model where I most probably only play hundreds of their thousands of songs.
On top it didn't support ASIO during beta and probably neither now.

[Scatterbrain71]

Thanks.  Setup the Beta branch and it worked like a charm.  

[tonygunk]

Hey guys! I was having the exact same issue and thankfully found this thread. My issue is all fixed with use of the beta branch. Same ol .dll file, same cherub rock. Only thing that changed for me was I believe the update (cant tell if was rocksmith/steam/windows but obviously something changed). I was going to be a sad boyo if I couldn't play bass after work. 

Thank you again so much for the beta branch!!!

[DThor]

Just to point out - this is a temporary workaround and I'm pretty sure those "stability issues" will get worked out with all speed and the beta stream will go away.  It's pretty obvious this is tied into agreements they've made with publishers to coincide with the launch of Rocksmith +, and as much as people will shake their fists at Ubisoft, it's related to a lot of legalese about the entire concept of CDLC (and managing delisted songs).  I'm confident the folks here will come up with a solution, but for the next little while we'll need to be careful firing up RS2014.

[sharkysi]

Hey all, I dont get the option in Beta, it just says "None"? Any help please?

 

[sharkysi]

On 9/10/2022 at 10:50 PM, Mineria said:

Taken from the post on reddit:

In our testing we noticed that some players who use Rocksmith 2014 with other programs may experience stability issues. For those players we've added a temporary legacy branch on Steam that can be accessed with the password "JustInCaseWeNeedIt". We only recommend using this branch if you experience issues after this latest update. Once those stability issues are resolved, we'll phase out this branch."

Might want to read the replies below that post, like how to disable auto updates for the game.
Good idea take a backup of the working modified game to, maybe we need to run 2014 in offline mode in the future, since it seems like UBI will block what they add to subscription-based RS+ instead of making DLC's available as a onetime purchase for RS 2014.
The RS+ library is pretty poor even with the claimed added 7000+ songs, almost all of the 183 Custom Forge songs I downloaded aren't even there.
Not sure how many songs RS 2014 comes with, but 439 minus those are DLC's I purchased, pretty much against their subscription-based model where I most probably only play hundreds of their thousands of songs.
On top it didn't support ASIO during beta and probably neither now.

great thanks, helps if I read thoroughly   Will the tool be updated for the new version?

 

[Mano_MTh]

On 9/12/2022 at 12:53 PM, sharkysi said:

Hey all, I dont get the option in Beta, it just says "None"? Any help please?

Same here, the list of beta branches is empty.

I didn't encounter any starting issues after the update. The only effect of the update is, that CDLCs don't start playing. They are properly listed, they play properly when opened from the list. After start the amps are loaded and the guitar input works OK. There is no fret-board, no tablature and no menu/key hints.

It feels like if they have added something during loading, expecting something in the song data, which the CDLCs don't have.

Original songs and DLCs play without problems.

[coldrampage]

27 minutes ago, Mano_MTh said:

Same here, the list of beta branches is empty.

I didn't encounter any starting issues after the update. The only effect of the update is, that CDLCs don't start playing. They are properly listed, they play properly when opened from the list. After start the amps are loaded and the guitar input works OK. There is no fret-board, no tablature and no menu/key hints.

It feels like if they have added something during loading, expecting something in the song data, which the CDLCs don't have.

Original songs and DLCs play without problems.

You need to enter the code "JustInCaseWeNeedIt" to get access to the beta branch, it's not listed by default.

You don't need to use the beta anymore tho since the tools have now been updated. Run this to stop the songs freezing before they load.
https://ignition4.customsforge.com/tools/CDLCEnabler

it's not an new check they added in this update it's always been a thing which is why we use the modified dll to load custom songs. If you don't have the dll it'll just freeze before loading the song.

[Mano_MTh]

3 hours ago, coldrampage said:

You need to enter the code "JustInCaseWeNeedIt" to get access to the beta branch, it's not listed by default.

You don't need to use the beta anymore tho since the tools have now been updated. Run this to stop the songs freezing before they load.
https://ignition4.customsforge.com/tools/CDLCEnabler

it's not an new check they added in this update it's always been a thing which is why we use the modified dll to load custom songs. If you don't have the dll it'll just freeze before loading the song.

Thanks a lot for the hint. It worked.

[Daz40]

Game won't start and I'm just getting this 

[Daz40]

Updated again and added new patch all good again 

[LarryB]

Thanks Much... was driving me a little nuts.  Works like a champ!

 

[RicoW265]

Pheeeew, this still works. I was having issues with Windows and had to re-install, and therefore had to reinstall steam and rocksmith.  I kept getting the arrrrggghhh error (lol) and had tried almost everything. (I was trying to see if I could have steam on an SSD seperate from the drive so thought this was the issue. 2 reinstalls of steam later and Google was my friend. After the 3rd install I followed the instructions above and low and behold, it worked. Thank you, thank you, thank you  

[fabrozor]

On 9/17/2022 at 4:46 PM, coldrampage said:

You don't need to use the beta anymore tho since the tools have now been updated.
[...]
https://ignition4.customsforge.com/tools/CDLCEnabler

The "CDLCEnabler" is working, thank you so much

I just needed to select my SSD where the game is installed (not default disk).