Starforce 3 and Soldiers - Heroes of World War II
 

I have read on here over the last few weeks about Soldiers - Heroes of World War II and the fact that no one can get a back up copy of their original CD to work because of Starforce 3. I downloaded the Demo and I bought the game when It came out. The question I have Is can you not use the Demo to learn how to get the full version to run without the CD?? The Demo does not ask for a CD or a CD Key and I know Demos never ask for this. Why can't you change the Demo exe and soliders.dll file to work with the full version?? I know both files were changed In the full version so why can't It be changed again?
I am new at this and I don't know how to do It but I just want to know If maybe It Is possible since so many people are trying to get a No CD for this game??

You can do that, you just end up with the demo though.

Thank you for the reply but I was not talking about switching the files, I was taking about opening and finding In the Demo exe or the soldiers.dll file how to turn off the CD check and CD Key check In the Full Verison exe or soldiers.dll file which ever file controls that..

Soldiers - Heroes of World War II @ Starforce 3 Hidden Devices
 

I was looking around on codemasters fourm and I found this-

Soldiers using Starforce Copy protection - hidden device drivers

I looked around here and It has not been talked about that I could find.. So Here's what I Found:

* Starforce is an extremely aggressive method of copy protection that actually works at the hardware level of your PC.

* It installs device drivers WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE or CONSENT.

* these device drivers are HIDDEN from normal view. They can be displayed by opening Device Manager, and clicking on "View" and then on "Show Hidden Devices"

* Even DEMOS install Starforce! as if there could be ANY possible reason for copy protecting a DEMO.

* Removal of the full game or demo that installed the drivers DOES NOT REMOVE THE STARFORCE DEVICE DRIVERS.

* important: manual removal of the device drivers can result in severe system problems. Some users have reported having to fully format and reinstall their OS, others have reported that their CD drives no longer read certain CD's after removal. DO NOT ATTEMPT MANUAL REMOVAL..

If you want to read the whole post go here-

Starforce Copy Protection discussion

Good luck, I think you have some deep reverse-engineering coming up

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Making Perfect Backup of Soldiers heores of wwII
 

my first post :) .

k first of all i used alcohol 120% 1.9.2 to make the image using the Starforce option 1/2/3,then after making the image i used Blindwrite 5.2.2 to burn the image using default profile.after buring the cd i tryed it and it worked fine detect the cd and the cd-key thingy and then i was in the game :D and i even tryed on my friend pc worked like a charm.:) anyways thats it enjoy :).

i can confirm that worked 4 me too (although not with every media i tryed) there is a 100% method but this would involve changing the image file wich im not capable of doing (or telling u where to get this modification course of the board rules) - yust wanted to tell ya it's indeed possible to backup
btw: (funny thing is my backup starts FASTER than my original lol)

Does anyone not care that this game Installs hidden drivers behind your back?? I love the game.. Between this and Battlefield I am In heaven but I don't like having things Installed on my system without my permission or knowledge.. Does anyone know what these drivers do??

yeah sorry i forgot to say i used TDK cd-r :) and plextor dvdwriter.
that game rules man its bad! :cool:

Making "sure" you keep your original disc in the drive and not trying to emulate....

still i think it should be illegal for companies to install things in ur hdd without notice or consent, i bet they wouldnt like people installing stuff in their mainframes would they!

Whatever..as soon as you choose to accept the EULA, they are more or less free to install all the shít they want....Starforce does it, so does Safeshít and Sexxxurom...put a logger on next time you install and you'll see a lot of "illegal" stuff invading your drive ;)

hey guys could you explain to me a in a bit more detail how you made back ups of this game i cant seem to get it to work. just keeps checking disk on me.thanks

Also confirmed. I have tried the alcohol images from emule. Worked with blindwrite.

GSA-4120b writer, TDK-cdr. Worked faster than my original too ;)