CONFIRMED - Race Driver 2 workaround guide.

[The Gauge]

Originally Posted by Morglum007

Why SF only works with tricks like that is because its special drivers. SF hides and modifies the Windows IDE accesing in order to control the whole operation. Every way that hides GENUINE IDE conected to optical drives ( where the alcohol image is) will result in an image launching. This is why alcohol needs not to have IDE conected to a drive in order to work, or why by networking it works. (SF compares "spin" test on every drive in order to "know" if a drive is virtual or not, so no optical must be present in order to fool that test)

good luck!

Hmmm... could you explain that last bit again, please? Are you saying that the SF protection modifies ALL your IDE drivers so, aside from controlling the access method on optical drives, it also knows if the "image" that's being run is coming off one of the other IDE devices, i.e. your harddrives? Presumably then, the SF protection runs, sees no optical drives, sees that it's not being accessed from one of the other IDE devices (harddrive), and proceeds as there are no other IDE devices to check? Hence the network image working?

This is very interesting stuff.