new method to bypass starforce 3!

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Grumpy, i didnt say anything bad about him, i simply can do without any more rubbish drivers getting installed thats i dont know wtf they do to pc, i have played these games for long time wirh no need for this driver or unplugging any roms, and i am on a Nforce mobo.

Most this is old news or very near same as other methods.

Simply solution, like me use a SATA hdd then you will stand a far better chance of beating SF.

[XdaywalkerX]

i think ULI chipsets are better than nforce chipsets (for starforce protected games )... for the following reason:

look to my signature - i can start ALL of thoose games without disable or disconnect or hide anything (excluding pop t2t - only works on x64 OS)

but i've tested the games wich i owned again (other games in my signature was only rented)

Splinter Cell CT
The Suffering Ties That Bind
PJ King Kong
Trackmania Sunrise and extrem Addon

ur method works fine on ULI Southbridge M1567 (Northbridge is M1695).

VERY IMPORTANT IS A GOOD DPM INFO OF UR CD/DVD BACKUP!!! OTHERWISE THE GAME WON'T WORK. (with alcohol set dpm reading speed to low - with blindwrite use "auto")

i'll test the other games asap - and as i get them (huh... my english is so bad... o.O)

[Nightmare]

Hi,
I did all that you write (@john486496).
I have an MSI MS-6712 V2 board.
I also have Daemon Tools 4.03.
Deactivating with VirtualDrive does work, my DVD-Burner is deactivated.
But when I mount my Prince Of Persia TTT Image (which is perfect, because I can play if I unplug my DVD-Burner), the game writes:" Insert the disc into another drive" (I don't know the exact message, because I'm German).
I have only the Daemon Tools device and VirtualDrive device.
And of course I have disable all emulations in Daemon Tools.

And that what VirtualDrive makes, is the same as I go to device manager and deactivate my secondary IDE-channel + my CD/DVD-Device.

What could I've done wrong??

Greets

[john486496]

!HaGaR! I have the all same problems for my licensed VD10.
But the "Virtual Drive"-List is not empty: my virtual drive appears.
Insert and eject buttons are grayed,but you can image in VCD fromat.

As I said it would be interesting to test (!HaGaR! or antoher tester) the make image option as,it support starforce3.However as XdaywalkerX said,alcohol do already that with good dpm info..


Nightmare85,I'm afraid that this method doen't work for msi chipset.



For all people, I'm not responsible if this doesn't work; -)

Starforce is so complicated that each user have to face it with his own system! Yes,all tricks will be still odd-jobs without good nocd/DVD or IDE Jammer Daemon tools.

However,for this time,I 'm convinced that we can find more tricks with combining vd10 tricks with others tricks, for example, internet image option in VD10..

People please test all this possbilities!

[john486496]

Hi all!

Moderators, shall you transfer this Thread to "CD Copy Protections & Utilities" ?

It would be nice,thanks in advance !

Anyone has tested other games ,other possbilities?

Best regards,
John

[lucifur2k]

ok this is what computer i have and i cant get suffering tttb to work without unpluging ide from cdrom apparently having sata hardrives helps with beating sf3xx i have sata so how does that make it better. by the way i cant even play the game with original game loads until the menu then reboots my com any one know why. i dont know why some people put others down for posting in the forums to me anyone aiding in the battle against game protection is cool in my books keep up the good work. die sf die
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[kingking]

help john486496 i tried your method with peter jackson king kong and it keeps teekling me inssert king kong's disc 1 into another drive and press retry pls help !! i disazbled the ide cd rom with virtual drive pro as it wasx said mouted with daemon tools still the same problem "insert king kong's disc 1 into another drive and press retry" help me pls i really wanna play this game and i saw your post i had some hope but it didn't work pls help also when i disable the ide with vdpro 10 i check my device mlanager and i see only my secondary ide disactivated the primary is still running but the avtual cd rom drives disappears they are disactivated pls help or any body that could help me , some of you said kin kong worked with vd po how did you do ? help

[Joe Forster/STA]

@lucifur2k: If you need help with your original game, you're on the wrong forum; contact the publisher instead! Also, I had to delete your list because without the pH value of your urine it is not useful anyway...

[Hellyy]

I have tried all methods
- Disabling CD/DVD in Device Manager
- Image in Alcohol/DT
- SFcure & SFNightmare
- Disabling IDE Secundary (dont know why my PC doesn't detect my IDE ATAPI/ATA like the Nforce ones that i've already seen in some posts)
- Using dif keys nothing works
My PC Config is
Intel P4 2.4ghz
motherboard asus p4s8x
2 drives: 1lgcdrw gce8481 / dvdlg
radeon 9600pro
2 hdd: westerndigital & seagate

Can some1 help me pls??????

[kooka]

mz too i tried everything but i wanna ask how do you disable your primary ide drives because when i right click on it in the device manager there is just uninstall ? and i have a question when you disable ou ide drives the virtueal drives don't get disaabled so it always detect the cd , how do oyu want it to work if it can detect the cd ? thanks for answering me pls

[m_malyszko]

Hey guys i have a Asus A8N SLI Deluxe Motherboard, my NForce drivers are 6.70, i have 3 IDE drives: A DVD-RW drive, a CD-RW drive, and my 160 GB HDD. The RW's are hooked up to 1 IDE cable, and my HDD to another. I cant disable my Parallel Controller in Device Manager, btw its a NFROCE 4 chipset with a NForce Parallel Controller, why, cause it controlls both my primary and secondary channels. Now said this, I understand someone said that SF-Protected games should work on NForce 3/4 mobo's. Who ever said this Must be high on something. But thats just me. Anyways, im saying this because ive tried to play Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory, i DL the images from TorrentSpy, ive used SFNightMare so many times, ive done so many things ive given up on it. Ive also tried other SF games and nothing. So who ever is saying that SF games Version 3.4 like Splinter Cell should work on NF4 Mobo's is lying. Guys, please add this mobo to your list of NON WORKING MOBOS and also CRAPPY MOBOS. At first i thought this was a great buy, but after i had so many crashes, and bugs, im like screw it. Does anyone have a suggestion on a new mobo.

[Grumpy]

@m_malyszko

i DL the images from TorrentSpy

Read the forum rules!!

ive done so many things ive given up on it.

Have you actually tried putting your hand in your pocket, to get some cash, then going to the game store to purchase the game legally!!!!

Bye Bye your are now banned for a month! This should give you enough time to purchase the game, legally!!

[bigal55]

use a usb caddy or what i use is a hard drive caddy,cheaper, dismantle it and connect the internals to your cd/dvd drive run the usb lead outside your box and u can connect it at will, not been beaten yet.

[Zulu]

@adbailey
When having a nForce/ULi based MoBo SFNightmare also works for SF 3.5+
I'd prefer SFNightmare, it's free and has no installer. What chipset do you have ? Also nForce or ULi ?

[satanWest]

I am sure this must have been the first step taken for killing SF but then .. For me anyway.. i simply had to disable the drives from windows device manager. Game started and worked. - Tested game : Cold War