New way to defeat starforce 3.6

[neptun]

Hi everybody.I suggess to make this thread some kind of guide how to bypass the starforce protection.I will tell the way it works for me and i hope that this will work for other people also.My harddisk is SerialATA so i have only optical drives attached to my IDE controller.So to play starforce protected games i just disable my IDE controller in device manager ( The whole IDE controller not the optical drives ) , mount the image in daemon tools 4 and play.After playing i just enable again the IDE controller and my optical drives appear again.No need to restart.I tested this with Prince of persia T2T and in a few hours i will test it with X3 Reunion also.I will be very happy if somebody with sata harddrive can test this way with other starforce games.

Update: This trick works for X3 Reunion also.

[LostS0uL]

heres an interesting thing that happenned to me: i installed the game from dt4 drive
turned off pc
unplugged cd/dvd roms
start pc
check if game works, it worked
shutdown pc
plugged in cd/dvd drives
start pc
goto device manager
on the wiwv tab there is a sahow hidden devices
click it
there will appear a non plug and play thing in the hardware list
look for starforce
there should be 4 of them
uninstall all
and after it restart
pc rebooted
mount image into dt4, play the game whit your cd/dvd drives NOT plugged out
thats it
works after it to
no changes needed
I hope thios will work for other people too

[Nightmare]

@neptun: Nice, but I haven't a S-ATA-HDD

@LostS0uL: Your method sounds very good. But can you make a screenshot of the step

goto device manager
on the wiwv tab there is a sahow hidden devices
click it
there will appear a non plug and play thing in the hardware list
look for starforce
there should be 4 of them

please?
That will be very helpful!
I haven't any Starforce-protected games yet. But I want to buy Prince Of Persia: TTT in a few days. So I want to be prepared for it
And do you know if it helps, when I disable my optical drives via BIOS, instead unplugging them??

And which game did you installed?

Greets

[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 Nightmare85

@neptun: Nice, but I haven't a S-ATA-HDD

@LostS0uL: Your method sounds very good. But can you make a screenshot of the step please?
That will be very helpful!
I haven't any Starforce-protected games yet. But I want to buy Prince Of Persia: TTT in a few days. So I want to be prepared for it
And do you know if it helps, when I disable my optical drives via BIOS, instead unplugging them??

And which game did you installed?

Greets

Disabling in BIOS doesn't help.I tried it.

[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.

[drslavke]

here is the deal

made an image in al120

pluged evrything off,

maut in dt4, tried antiblaxx, sfcure, actualy tried evrything i could find

when i start the game, he sad somthing about disc key doesnnt corespond with the disc in the drive whyy, it' s the write key


what should i do??

P.S. sorry4E

[neptun]

maybe your image is not good enough.Some drives cannot read DPM info correctly.The decision is to download .mds file with good dpm info for the game and replace the .mds file from your image with the good .mds.In the topic for Prince of persia the two thrones you can find a link to a german website with .mds files for different games.Good luck.