New way to defeat starforce 3.6

[copy2012]

I also have a SATA drive, tried the same technique with no result

[doomerdgr8]

Show Hidden Devices:




My SATA & PATA HDDs + DVDWriter+Alcohol 120% Virtual Drive:


Expanding Non-PnP Devices to reveal 4 StarForce Devices....


I have not tested it though but I am looking for a correct way to get rid of SF drivers/Devices from my system...

[Efebeter]

Not all drivers wants to uninstall whats more after every uninstall system asks to reboot and it doesnt resolve the problem of Worms Mayhem

[Xan3llu5]

You can uninstall the drivers through registry ... saves some time:

go to \HKEY_LOKCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Serv ices

there are folders that start with "sf" (e.g. "sfsync02" or "sfvfs02" and so on ... these are the keys for the Starforce drivers ... simply delete them and optional delete the files in the folder C:\Windows\system32\drivers\ as well ...
hope i could help with that.

[neptun]

Originally Posted by copy2012

I also have a SATA drive, tried the same technique with no result

Did you disable the whole IDE Controller in IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers section in device manager?For me personally i need to disable NVIDIA nForce4 Parallel ATA Controller for this to work but if you use standard drivers you may have more than one device ( for example you can have Primary channel and secondary channel ) and in this you need to disable both of them for this to work.

[falsenews]

Ok I did what LostS0uL suggested, which seems to nearly work fine. The only problem I'm running into is that, even though I can delete the files in system32/drivers... but they keep being reinstalled (or return in some other way) after say 2 seconds, causing all starforce stuff to be reinstalled...any idea on how to avoid the driver files to return?

[sas421]

I did as you said and was successful in removing the 4 drivers. restarted. Mounted in Daemon 4.00 but when i try to load the game it gives me this error: "Insert the POP3 Disc into another drive and press Retry". I then went into the registry and deleted those keys and retried and still not working. when i install, it gives me the option of selecting differnet languages at the beginning. So might be a european version?
I also tried to burn it with Alcohol and it didn't work. I don't know how to proceed either. Is there anyway to burn the file?

[neptun]

As i know there is no way to burn DVD image of game protected with starforce 3 and it to work.If the game is on CDs there is a way to burn working CD of starforce 3 game but you need to patch the image with a special tool made by a warez group and then burn it the way they say.Warez is not allowed here so i will stop now because i am not sure that mentioning the name of this tool is legal.If you want to know more you can send me a Personal Message.

[DABhand]

As far as I know the tool aint a warez group tool.


And the guy before you is obviously a warez user. Since he wants to know how to burn an image rather than getting it work instead of his original.