Daemon Tools 4

[rats]

Even though it's not released on the homepage ( http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/announcements.php ) daemon tools 4 is here. I, for one, didn't find anything noticeable (maybe because i didn't look into it that much), but some people say it can emulate starforce 3.x (or at least the Pro version that's soon to apear)... more detailes soon, i guess...

[BarryB]

Are you a Professional Time Waster?

[prollfin]

He must be one. I can't see anything like a release on their site... Plus, one of the DT guys said it's coming this week but NOT on monday...

[prollfin]

Okay, seems like I was wrong. 4.00 is out now.

[crypto6600]

hello , go download dt4 and it does emulates SF at this post :

http://fileforums.com/showthread.php...105#post301105

[TippeX]

if you read the info on their site you'll see that it isnt the revolutionary 4.0 that everyone is waiting for, new redesign, some adware added (user can opt to install it), ide jammer is not present, nor is 64 bit driver support, so its the same old **** in a different box, disappointing really because i paid to register it thinking it would be good, then came the 14 day delay after their much anticipated october 'deadline'... now im beginning to think i wasted my money on vaporware, i shall wait and see but for now i think their 'news' and 'release' are very very lacking...

as for emulating starforce, didnt the old daemon tools do the same with ide drives disconnected?

[hyakkii]

yes very disappointing for a program thats been in development for so long. Hopefully the pro version will be somewhat better if it ever gets released takes that team years just to put one change in

[Machina]

So what in the world did they change in this release...It seems like 3.47 with some blacklisting fixes.

[DUKE_NUKEM]

On the official site they say that DT4 works if no IDE Drive is connected or IDE-NODES are disabled. I wonder if disabling nodes via SFNightmare and then mounting game images onto DT4 virtual device will finally work with SF protected games. Does anyone have tried this way??? If it works without phisically unplugging drives, it would be a great thing anyway....

[Favaro]

Originally Posted by DUKE_NUKEM

On the official site they say that DT4 works if no IDE Drive is connected or IDE-NODES are disabled. I wonder if disabling nodes via SFNightmare and then mounting game images onto DT4 virtual device will finally work with SF protected games. Does anyone have tried this way??? If it works without phisically unplugging drives, it would be a great thing anyway....

Yes i was able to get trackmania sunrise and splintercell chaos theory to work. I was also able to get fear ver 1.2 to work without the original disk in the drive. I made sure all emulation options were on in daemond tools 4 then disabled drives and rebooted. Game loaded no prob without disk.

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by TippeX

if you read the info on their site you'll see that it isnt the revolutionary 4.0 that everyone is waiting for, new redesign, some adware added (user can opt to install it), ide jammer is not present, nor is 64 bit driver support, so its the same old **** in a different box, disappointing really because i paid to register it thinking it would be good, then came the 14 day delay after their much anticipated october 'deadline'... now im beginning to think i wasted my money on vaporware, i shall wait and see but for now i think their 'news' and 'release' are very very lacking...

as for emulating starforce, didnt the old daemon tools do the same with ide drives disconnected?

Dude you know better than to throw your money about to soon

Nothing is guarenteed, id rather wait than be one of the first. If you know what I mean

[DUKE_NUKEM]

Favaro I'm happy for ya but I'd like to know if you need to uninstall alcohol or daemon tools prevents also alcohol's virtual device from blacklisting.
Oh, just one thing:are we sure that the problem is make sf games backup work? I think the REAL problem is that SF virus installs silently and damages hardware and software, so I would be satisfied if there were a possibility to play WITHOUT installing SF drivers. Bypassing the protection is not a good solution , if the protection itself is dangerous for the system. For me, the only way to go is to keep boycotting sf games, even if we are now able to play some of them from backups.

[Favaro]

Well duke i never had alcohol installed and it worked fine. But decided to install it to test it out. Now it doesnt work. Even after installing it i cant get it to work. Oh well.

I had daemon tools installed of course because i was mounting the images with it. As for starforce drivers ive never had a prob with it damaging my hardware or software.

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by DUKE_NUKEM

Favaro I'm happy for ya but I'd like to know if you need to uninstall alcohol or daemon tools prevents also alcohol's virtual device from blacklisting.
Oh, just one thing:are we sure that the problem is make sf games backup work? I think the REAL problem is that SF virus installs silently and damages hardware and software, so I would be satisfied if there were a possibility to play WITHOUT installing SF drivers. Bypassing the protection is not a good solution , if the protection itself is dangerous for the system. For me, the only way to go is to keep boycotting sf games, even if we are now able to play some of them from backups.

Jeesus PEOPLE!


Starforce is NOT designed to ruin hardware..

It does benchmark drives, and if your drives are faulty or old it could cause them to fail.

It is NOT a virus..

It does NOT kill legal software..


See all it takes is one person to say "OMG my Drive is dead, it must have been SF", then everyone jumps on the same band waggon. With new and more interesting stories..


As usual people follow the leader

[Joe Forster/STA]

@DABhand: I suggest you read my little story at http://fileforums.com/showthread.php...e=6#post299123 .