Direct 2 Drive Chaos Theory Question

[LoxHazard]

Originally Posted by ni9ht_5ta1k3r

If you save the registry files then you don't need to use the 5 key limit!

Yes, but this only valid in case how formatted or uninstall, but if you change your hardware more than 40%, then Hardware code is different. Registry Key trick is not valid in this last case.

This trick is a legal developer trick (see example link), but if someone don´t know this, then spend activations for nothing.

Example:
http://www.lockon.ru/index.php?end_p...efault&lang=en

Originally Posted by Talus

What happens if you upgrade your hardware a few times in a year? You have to buy the game ALL over again after 5 upgrades?

Copy-protection is going too far.

Yes, you must re-buy the game after 5 activations (if you like continue playing the game). Indeed, changes of hardware must be more of 40% to need reactivation, if you change Ram only, or minor changes then don´t must reactivation, the game continues active.

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

And what happens if you upgrade your PC, say, five years later when the publisher/developer/supporter of a Starforce Proactive-protected game is already out of business...?! Yup, you won't be able to play your game as no one will provide the online "activation key" service anymore (even if you're still within the 5 activations)!

Then you will have a useless game.

Starforce proactive is a very bad protection. And same case in normal Starforce 3.

Starforce 3 is hardware dependant, in future hardware, actual starforce 3 games (and proactive too), could don´t works for incompatibilities or other hardware problems. Starforce proactive and starforce 3 is a very bad thing.
Publishers are wrong with starforce, because Starforce is a true malignous protection, and be must dissapeared.
The future of PC is dark with this protection, and with TCPA/PALLADIUM in horizont too.

One solution in this cases, could be that starforce guys make a NO-CD or NO-Activation patch for legit buyers, but is difficult thing, imho.

Originally Posted by DUKE_NUKEM

@LoxHazard

If what you're saying it's true (and I think it is...), then why don't they ask to me about my height, my weight, or my number of shoes? C'mon this is the most ridiculous protection I've ever heard of, more ridiculous than the Steam idea. It's unbelievable that someone who spends a lot of money for a game then he also have to wait for its code to come. As Steam demonstrated, it is IMPOSSIBLE to provide services like that cuz' there are too many user who don't want to wait to play their gamez. Indeed the algorhytms for calculating the code would soon become the base for a keygen (or there is some kind of trick behind them?). If encrypted filez didn't work, I don't think that any code could, and however it would be another hard hit to the patience of the playerz. But maybe I'm wrong....

Sorry for my english again and forever

Its true. But, they only look for your hardware code. Is an inteligent protection, but not good for buyers for the limit activation.

Not keygen posibilities, is imposible. Tricks is imposible too.

The activation key, depends of your serial key (is in the game) an your hardware code. The serial key is in the game, and the algorithms of serial number depends of developers, not of starforce guys, in this case, starforce only create activation key, with Hardware code an original Serial number.
Someone could decrypt starforce algorithm, but not developer algorithm serial number.

Download this, for more information
https://secure.shareit.com/download....Active_ENG.zip

Excuse my english, but this is important.