Starforce DVD Drive Help

[BlazeNWO]

I recently installed Silent Hunter III from direct2drive (bought it). It installed just fine, but my DVD/CD-RW drive disappeared from "My Computer". It shows up in Device Manager but says it cant find the hardware, even though it is hooked up. I did have Dameon Tools installed but uninstalled it after I installed SH3. SH3 uses Starforce, so I'm guessing thats the reason why. Is there anyway to get my DVD drive back aside from uninstalling SH3? I tried those starf*cker/sfn tools but couldnt get them to renable it. There is a crack out for SH3 but for the 1.0 version (1.1 isnt out yet) and even then Im not sure if that would renable my drive. Any help would be appreciated.

[Luciel]

D2D games arent copyright protected, instead, the require activation, so it cant be because of SF

[BlazeNWO]

yea they do require activation, but it def. has starforce in it, Pid confirmed it, there cant be any other reason for it not working, it was working fine then after I installed it it stopped working so it must be starforce

[GLH]

It can't be Starforce, because you don't have a CD/DVD.

[DABhand]

It could technically may have an alternative similar to SF by checking a certain file for activation rights. Its possible the SF programmers have come up with something for this kind of thing?

[BarryB]

There have been a number of downloadable game demos released protected with Starforce, Still Life is one of them, so you actually don't need a CD/DVD drive to have Starforce protected games! Look at Macrovision and their SafeCast licensing system where you just need a code to activate the software after installing, PlexTools Pro XL is an example of that, and Starforce can be made to do the same thing!