[mesopotamica]

Hi people

I am new here and I have registered just for the sake of this damn star force that is ruining my joy of prince of persia 3 release !!

I have read all the comments here and I believe that I can give some kinna tip about this damn protection SF!!

The reason behind the fact that removin' or unpluggin' the IDE is the only way that can overcome SF protection is that StarForce works just like the device manager...just try it yourself and U'll C...when you disable the CD/DVD drives or the IDE through the device manager, it can detect them again if you enable them; so that means it is of no use doin' that through the device manager especially when U know that the way the latter search and detect the drive is the very same way the starforce does.

So once you can fool the device manager from detecting the drive, you can do the same for starforce; and ofcourse this is the reason why disconnecting the drive physically is the only way to break the protection.

I have tried all the starforce fuckin' tools and non of them worked cuz they act through disabling the drives softwarely not hardwarely...I also tried disabling the drives from the BIOS and the same result I got..

So only disconnecting the drive or a patch for the game is the way .