CONFIRMED - Race Driver 2 workaround guide.

[Elnino]

This may also be of info to some ppl.

I have a TOTALLY SCSI machine. All ATA/IDE/SATA is disabled in BIOS on my mobo. According to all the info that i have read, StarForce only plays with the IDE drivers - Not true. I created an image with Alcohol and mounted it from my SCSI (hard) drive and it still does not work.

I must mount it on a networked drive for it to work (which it does fine).

Obviously it does not just deal with IDE drivers. I read somewhere that SF is checking if there is identical traffic on the HDD while it is accessing the 'CD'. If it is the same then it determines that it is running from a VCD and stops the proggy from executing.

I've also heard rumours that apparently WMP9 plays funny buggers with the SF 'drivers'. This is totally untested but i read that if you happened to run WMP9 and then (within one second..?) start TOCA/V8 then it somehow masks the SF driver and allows it to run. Not sure if this affects just not having to unplug IDE drives or if it would make it work on a local VCD version.
Still playing......