StarForce > Starforce Nightmare

[synchro_w]

i actually unplugged my dvd drive, and now ufo aftershock says it doesn't recognise my serial. which is weird cos it did before. i uninstalled the game, created an image, installed it, and, as i said, the serial key no longer works.
i should say that i did a regclean and also manually removed the cenega folder with the starforce stuff etc on it. possibly this is why my serial no longer works? but i don't think so.

the starforce protection is a nightmare for me personally as it often takes 4-10 minutes to check i have a proper dvd inside my drive when i wanna play the game. this is ridiculous. the same happened with gangland. it took so long for my drive to verify that i just lost interest. i mean, waiting 10 minutes to play a game is taking 'protection' too far]. and, not only that, but sometimes after a 10 minute wait, the check would fail and i would have to start al over again.
suffice to say, i no longer play gangland anymore. would you?
now i got the same issue with ufo aftershock. i'm giving it until monday before i return it for a refund [or swap for summat else].
i have a phillips dvd drive. sadly.

oddly enough heroes of ww2 works fine. but i don't know for certain whether it is SF protected [i think it is as someone on these forums mentioned it].

das

[Grumpy]

@synchro

heroes of ww2 works fine. but i don't know for certain whether it is SF protected

Yep, it is!

[DarkStar782]

Is it me or has someone committed a bit of thread necromancy here? (reply #9 is 4 months after #8 lol)

I'm not sure, but in Germany if you do ANYTHING to bypass copy proctections they can sue you. Its much stricter that in the US. CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG. I AM NOT SURE.

I have no idea either, but it seems to me you could base a reasonable defence around 1:1 copies (I think Blindwrite can currently make such disks) and to a lesser extent Emulation, because you are not 'breaking' or 'bypassing' the copy protection, it is still active, it just thinks you are using an original...

I know how Synchro feels about SF, I couldnt get X3 Reunion to run from the original when I first bought it (before I made any attempt whatsoever to back it up), In the end it trasnpired that it was caused by the *lightest* fingerprint imaginable on the disk.

To me this is just absurd. That any CP system should be that fussy about a media that is so easily scratched etc is pathetic, especially as I have NEVER known a CP system that cannot be either cracked, emulated, or 1:1 backed up, meaning that all the CP achieves is pissing of us legitimate customers.

[HBush]

Originally Posted by synchro_w

i actually unplugged my dvd drive, and now ufo aftershock says it doesn't recognise my serial. which is weird cos it did before. i uninstalled the game, created an image, installed it, and, as i said, the serial key no longer works.
i should say that i did a regclean and also manually removed the cenega folder with the starforce stuff etc on it. possibly this is why my serial no longer works? but i don't think so.

the starforce protection is a nightmare for me personally as it often takes 4-10 minutes to check i have a proper dvd inside my drive when i wanna play the game. this is ridiculous. the same happened with gangland. it took so long for my drive to verify that i just lost interest. i mean, waiting 10 minutes to play a game is taking 'protection' too far]. and, not only that, but sometimes after a 10 minute wait, the check would fail and i would have to start al over again.
suffice to say, i no longer play gangland anymore. would you?
now i got the same issue with ufo aftershock. i'm giving it until monday before i return it for a refund [or swap for summat else].
i have a phillips dvd drive. sadly.

oddly enough heroes of ww2 works fine. but i don't know for certain whether it is SF protected [i think it is as someone on these forums mentioned it].

das

I had the same problem with Chrome Specforce. It always does that. I stopped worrying nd did this:

Only thing I did was an MDF aLC120 image (DPM high), mount in Daemon tools 4 and disable nodes+ cd´s in Starforce Nightmare and the request vanished! That was it! Maybe it has to do with adding sfcure01 to registry but I´m not sure. I first thought its STarfu** that does the trick but it runs without it . Maybe you sould try that!

Ps: I didn´t unplug any drives instead I used the disable cd button and removed any disk from the drive.

[kre]

One Question: does it matter for successfully running a SF-protected game if I install it before from Original or by the Alc image? I remember having read this in somewhere forums.

[Jackie7]

hello,
One question: your splinter cell 3 should be U.S version or Europian version.
Does it have any difference??

[HBush]

Originally Posted by Jackie7

hello,
One question: your splinter cell 3 should be U.S version or Europian version.
Does it have any difference??

Euro version. It doesn´t matter at all as far as I´m concerned...

[Xslayer]

i cant get the backup to work for ufo aftershock even with that sfnightmare? keeps saying put cd in anther drive i have deamon tool 4 to

[Joe Forster/STA]

Read the FAQ on how to make cracks work.

[synchro_w]

Originally Posted by Xslayer

i cant get the backup to work for ufo aftershock even with that sfnightmare? keeps saying put cd in anther drive i have deamon tool 4 to

same here. i sent mine back. swapped it for some bloody awful game called gun.
****ehawks

[HBush]

Originally Posted by kre

One Question: does it matter for successfully running a SF-protected game if I install it before from Original or by the Alc image? I remember having read this in somewhere forums.

don´t know.rule is, when you don´t know do it for safety reasons. If you have some more time try both to find out. I would install from the image only because its faster and less trouble. Also, if there is anything like starforce creating a serial or wahtever I´d have better chances when using the image!?