CONFIRMED - Race Driver 2 workaround guide.

[KingPickle]

For all you electronics guys out there a question. Is it safe to wire an on/off switch into the 12v input of the IDE drive? Would this fool the Starforce drivers? (The drive will not appear in windows without 12 power).

You can test that out quickly. Just leave the side of your case open with the 12v unpluged. When you boot to windows, try puttin that molex back on the drive

[The Gauge]

Originally Posted by KingPickle

You can test that out quickly. Just leave the side of your case open with the 12v unpluged. When you boot to windows, try puttin that molex back on the drive

Heh... I'd seriously avoid doing something like this unless you're prepared to power-down the PC before you flick the switch.

[Morglum007]

@The gauge:

Well, i don't really know what do you want to hear about.
What i'm meaning is that SF ONLY patches the Windows Kernell if it finds optical drives connected to IDE. When remotely mounting, SF looks for another devices searching the SAME "protocol", and because is across a lan, no other devices are found to compare with. The same thing happens with SCSI drives. SF hides almost every CDB commnad for reading CD, cause most computers on this world have drives conected to standart IDE. I think Windows IDE drivers are not safe enough to SF, so it patches it in order to properly hide what it is doing.

Secondly, respecting what some people call "spin" test, SF can send some commands to any drive ( mounted or not) about speed. Remember SF loads even before Windows loading is complete, so SF can easyly find which unit is virtual and which no.

Well, about that electronics i have seen ( with some laughts (excuse me, it's only so funny for me ), well, the problem is windows, not the IDE (hehe) If you neutralize that, how will windows recognice your HD and so one? Only by avoiding SF loading with windows, you could try something that (:?) I do not recommand it.

Well, don't think if properly replied to.

good luck!

[Hawk404]

@dusted:

*lol*

I tried it with my original and it workz

greetz

[NoS]

Originally Posted by Morglum007

SF ONLY patches the Windows Kernell if it finds optical drives connected to IDE

does anyone try an 5 1/4 external USB box to put a Rom-drive in ?

i´ll would try it, but dont have one


greets alot

[BaumDoktor]

anybody tried that method on 1.2? seems they changed the sf version again .... ill keep trying for the fun of it but i think im back to my orginal with 1.2

[si110]

Originally Posted by BaumDoktor

anybody tried that method on 1.2? seems they changed the sf version again .... ill keep trying for the fun of it but i think im back to my orginal with 1.2

Wont work with patched version,has to be original.If you have patched you will need to reinstall game AND use starforce removal tool.Patch makes some changes to starforce to prevent lan work-around.Cunning Codemasters.

[tdbone1]

i had a previous problem withfarcry and UT2k4 dvds

i think my nforce2 mboard & my sata were the culprits.

when u use sata it installs a scsi / virtual driver like daemon tools and alcohol 120%

i was thinking though (with starforce) in the previous post in this thread ppl kept talking about how it checks or modifies the ide driver

since i use sata for my hard drives and use my cdrom on the ide channel would thiis procedure still work with out the 1.2 patch

thanks for letting everyone know about a work around

[tdbone1]

i know talking about toca 2 is very touchy in these forums as far as asking (the any news yet) thats why i wont ask it (even though i would like to)

what i would like to ask however; is there a place we can talk about it or a special forum area for that kind of discusiion?

thanks

[epix]

*klick*

[jimscreechy]

Bloody hell, that was a long post, I don't know if I could be bothered with that workaround so here is one I tried. If like me you have more than one PC on your lan and want to play stick it in the drive and load the game, once the check has finished and the game has started the disk is not needed. Simply stick it in the second drive and play. I have 3 PC's on my net and this has so far worked without issue.

[Grumpy]

Yur right there jim, I just tried it as soon as I read your post, and yep it sure as hell worked!! How easy was that to play with the Original on 2 PC's!! Bet that peeves a lot of people who dont have the Original.
Like Ive said many times before this game is just to good, do yourselves a huge favour and just buy it! Surely it must be getting cheaper now!

[ente]

Rip the TRD2 DVD to .mds image file.

How can i rip the mds auf a dvd game ? - alcohol makes not a dpm measurement of a dpm game.

[Grumpy]

I think he just means to use alcohol to make an image of the game?