Prince of Persia Two Thrones and King Kong Runing Smoothly with Image

[rotulos1]

I can also play any starforce protected game (legally owned) without unplugging or disabling anything. I just create an image using Alcohol 120% (high precision DPM, 4x speed) on my hard drive from the original DVD/CD then mount it using Daemon Tools 4 and installing/playing from there.

NOTE: My PC has an nforce3 mobo (Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939) with an Athlon64 cpu. The hard drive is alone on the primary ide channel, DVD+RW and CD-RW drives (both are LITE-ON drives) are on the secondary ide channel.

[Diranar]

Yeah fine for you, if you have Luck like you and have a Nforce 3 or 4 board it CAN be , that you don't have to Physical Disconnect your Drives, but this is rather random as it seems.
Users with such boards should try this, but if the games fail to run, i would pull the cables and try it again.

[DABhand]

IVE not got an nforce board and I can play games without taking out the power connectors to drives.

I just disable them in Hardware Manager.


EDIT: Cant even spell right lol "if" tut lol

[Anti669]

Originally Posted by DABhand

If not got an nforce board and I can play games without taking out the power connectors to drives.

I just disable them in Hardware Manager.

Same here, with an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NForce 4 Ultra)

[phantom IL]

Originally Posted by rotulos1

I can also play any starforce protected game (legally owned) without unplugging or disabling anything. I just create an image using Alcohol 120% (high precision DPM, 4x speed) on my hard drive from the original DVD/CD then mount it using Daemon Tools 4 and installing/playing from there.

NOTE: My PC has an nforce3 mobo (Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939) with an Athlon64 cpu. The hard drive is alone on the primary ide channel, DVD+RW and CD-RW drives (both are LITE-ON drives) are on the secondary ide channel.

Hi
i dont understand what the mobo have to relevance with the protection game,,,
just mount the game (king kong) use anti-blaxx DT-4 alchole 120 image disconnect the cd/dvd from power and you good to GO !

[leezer3]

The relavance is that the motherboards in question use an IDE controller which cannot be directly addressed by the SF drivers. What this means is that they are unable to attempt to reactivate drives which have been disabled either via the BIOS or via Windoze device manager. This means that all that is necessary is to disable the physical CDs via device manager and away you go. (People with SATA HDDs like myself may not even need to do this, seems to depend on the exact mobo)

-Leezer-

[nINJAkECIL]

Originally Posted by leezer3

The relavance is that the motherboards in question use an IDE controller which cannot be directly addressed by the SF drivers. What this means is that they are unable to attempt to reactivate drives which have been disabled either via the BIOS or via Windoze device manager. This means that all that is necessary is to disable the physical CDs via device manager and away you go. (People with SATA HDDs like myself may not even need to do this, seems to depend on the exact mobo)

-Leezer-

Same here...I got Albatron K8X250Gb Pro (nforce3 250) mobo and SATA HD and I dont have to disable my DVD-RW at all...