As far as i know: VD 10
does nothing else than disabling your ide devices
the same way you can do by yourself, using the windows device manager
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I can't judge by my own experiences - cause i don't have an nforce board. But everyone i heard saying, getting a starforce protected game to work by using daemon tools 4, an alcohol image and VD 10, had an nforce board. You can read it on fileforums and on daemon tools own forum. It seems to work on every nforce 3 & 4 board and some nforce 2 users wrote, that it worked for them too. But it also worked for all of them, disabling their ide channels on the device manager instead of using virtual drive. And
no user of intel, via or sis boards could get it to work with VD 10
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So: it's definitely the nforce chipset - but i guess this "leak" will be gone with the next starforce version
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