Rise And Fall: CaW - Starforce 3.7

[Morglum007]

As we have tested yet, these "accidental" copies will run almost everywhere ( by now).

Seems newer and "imbatible" Frontline disc check in the middle of discs closes too much to the required zone topology in such discs.

The 3.7 Sf games we have in Spain ( remember some of them havent been released yet, so i could not test with them) and i have tested works almost perfect: War on terror & Rise and fall. We have a little caotic here with same brands and different media codes ( viewable with DVD info pro for example), but we considered this previous "rumour" interesting and tested, with amazing results. I'm not the only one got working copies, we did test with 5 different people from different countries, so tests are perfectly valid.

We also tried different recorders to see if recorder had something to do, and result was...nothing, recorders does not matter, the important thing is the media.

We only noticed interesting problems with those Nforce chipset Mobo and controllers. Cloned DVD didnt work here till we unplug them from mobo and conected via USB, so thats the only issue we found. Seems SF makes check stronger in those motherboards.

As i stated in cdfreaks long ago, seems some of my guessings about MR (mount rainnier) and +R format was correct. We will continue testing.

In the other way, still looking for older SF DVD protected titles. At the end of disc track, seems SF still goes strong.

TIP: Those games didnt work on Nforce based system till verified from USB external drive (same disc). Maybe thats the ATAPI check u mention:

War on terror
Toca race driver 3
GTI - Racing
LA rush

[Grumpy]

@Morglum
Hello M, great to see cdsteam is back in business.

[Synbiote]

so, for what i can tell..Stafucks up the system again and the only way to get this game (and several other games released today) is:

Burn the image on a DVD+R of some specific type,
Or start hacking my registry, disable my IDE controller and HOPE it plays with DT4????

Great.. Man i'm gonna strap up, walk over to starfucks office and bomb those b**************** off to hell..

and knowing that i have DT4 installed on my PC i't ll probably not even work with my original disk >_<

[neptun]

@Morglum007

Are you saying that this method with burning to DVD+R\RW discs with certain mediacodes without emulation is not going to work with all nforce chipsets?Does the problem exsists only with the oldest nforce chipset or it is common for nforce , nforce 2 , nforce 3 and nforce 4 motherboards?

[Morglum007]

Originally Posted by neptun

@Morglum007

Are you saying that this method with burning to DVD+R\RW discs with certain mediacodes without emulation is not going to work with all nforce chipsets?Does the problem exsists only with the oldest nforce chipset or it is common for nforce , nforce 2 , nforce 3 and nforce 4 motherboards?

Unfortunatelly we dont know yet. We know Nforce based chipset (an nforce4 chipset i think) had problems with SF in the past, and now, we had problems again with it. Considering testing mobo is a relativelly new one, maybe problems goes both newer and older. I think, anyway, it is a newer RAID/IDE controller bug with such chipset. Nforce seems to make a mix between both, not being RAID or IDE at all. Maybe thats the problem.

I havent replies to u now, sorry :\

[neptun]

Maybe.I have nforce4 motherboard ( ASUs A8N-SLI Deluxe ) and in the past the strange controller helped me very much because i didn't need to unplug the drives physically when using image mounted in virtual drive but just disable the ide controller in device manager worked ( my harddisks are sata ).Toca race driver 3 worked for me with this method but Rise and Fall CaW doesn't work.I hope that new daemon tools pro which maybe will be released soon will fix the things by using virtual ide drive.

EDIT: Have you tried both with the nvidia ide drivers and with the standart MS drivers?In the past it did matter if you use the nvidia drivers or the standard ms drivers.

[Morglum007]

Originally Posted by neptun

Maybe.I have nforce4 motherboard ( ASUs A8N-SLI Deluxe ) and in the past the strange controller helped me very much because i didn't need to unplug the drives physically when using image mounted in virtual drive but just disable the ide controller in device manager worked ( my harddisks are sata ).Toca race driver 3 worked for me with this method but Rise and Fall CaW doesn't work.I hope that new daemon tools pro which maybe will be released soon will fix the things by using virtual ide drive.

EDIT: Have you tried both with the nvidia ide drivers and with the standart MS drivers?In the past it did matter if you use the nvidia drivers or the standard ms drivers.

We did, and no way. Still refuses to launch.

For the next question, we discovered long ago, that SF access in SMM mode for a while before launching ( SMM: Super Memory Mode aka BIOS level for most people (even a "higher" level that ring0)[suposelly to be imposible under windows running, but SF does using special micro flags]) and here SF detects HDs, drives, and so on. We also know SF "blacklisted" some RAID controllers long ago, by modifying some windows entries to take data from those "virtual raid". Thats maybe the reason SF detects both ATAPI/ATIP check (when available, not applyable to +R format in theory) under such controllers.
We was known some RAID SiS controllers were "sniffed" but we didnt suppose it did the same with nforce ones, but who knows.... Nforce chipset specs are not public, so, maybe SF found something we didnt yet to get full access as an IDE under RAID (overriding RAID advantages).

Up to day, we are still in the "testing ands supposing phase".
We cant be more accurate with this nforce related issue yet, as stated before.

CdSTeam

[Zulu]

Originally Posted by Morglum007

Seems SF makes check stronger in those motherboards.

So that might be the reason for my Toca/DTM3 not to run, too ? What do you mean when saying "stronger" (without getting too technical ) ?

Another example (this time without ID changes for my SiI0649): Blazing Angels 1.0 (3.7.13) doesn't run, but v1.01 (3.7.16) does, same DVD/drive.

P.S.: My IDE ports are blocked by my graphic card's vent (AC Silencer); so i was too lazy to try on normal IDE channel; will try Blazing Angels 1.0 at a friend this evening (i865P).