X3 Reunion - Using a mounted image

[Underheaven]

program and settings

wizardzg, how did you create your image (program used, settings)?

[wizardzg]

i need help

i have X3 reunion but i cant run it.i do everything disconect my CD/DVD and game not started plz who knows how to start game
send me tutorial step by step

[clemento]

I can confirm that after installing the 1.3 patch X3 will still run from my image file

[lazlo]

It runs fine with me. Nforce 4 board with pata disabled and sfn, disable cd disable node.

[sanderman]

Hi everyone, the info here helped me a lot. I've got X3 working now by unplugging IDE.
Can anyone using X3 w/o cd confirm that it still works after 1.3 patch, I've heard rumors about updated starforce protection.

[spidey]

I was hoping for companies who use it to go out of business - but the more popular Starforce gets, the more people are going to hack at it.
Also, I thought that was interesting, if you hold shift down when you start the game you get a box where you can enter a keycode - that will bypass security and start the game. You get such a code from the people at Starforce if they believe you are worthy - and it only works for your machine.
Amazing though that nobody has made a generator for that - guess you are right, it is a tough program

[DrTalon]

I doubt Starforce is gunna be evaporating any time soon. I mean think about it, any game that forces you to unplug your drives so you can play a copied version must have really good copy protection right? If we gamers were making the games, we'd probably use it too so we could get $$$. It's all about the green.

And on that note, I need to go plug my cd drives back in; I wanna play ut2004 but I gotta install it first :/

[spidey]

install dt 4 (properly !)

What is properly? (and what way is the wrong way?)

unplug optical drive/s (cd/dvd drives)

You gotta be kidding... god I hope they go out of business.

[clemento]

Yes i realise this, and as mentioned in my post i've made images of GT Legends and Worms Mayhem. Both of these are starforce. Got hold of a new DVD drive today and it has created the image with no problems getting the DPM, now i've just got to try to run it.

[DomiOh]

As mentioned in many threads before, you have to clean your system from the starforce drivers because they prevent making a correct DPM measure.

Try to clean your system with sfclean.

[clemento]

Well i can't even make an image of X3, cannot get DPM info using current device

Strange as i've made good images of GT Legends & Worms Mayhem

Oh well

[Jazzy]

X3 on a laptop?

It seems from what i have read you need to remove the power and IDE from optical drives to get this to work with emulation but i cannot do this on a laptop, tools like SFnightmare seem to do nothing, is there anything i can do? any sugestions are apriciated many thanks in advance.

[balance]

If thats the only thing you see then you have your harddrive and your dvd-drive are using one parallel cable. Disabling that would crash your computer (obviously because they're on the same cable). You need to buy a SATA (serial ata) harddrive for the trick to work. So in your device manager, you would see:

-nvidia nforce4 parallel ata controllor
-nvidia nforce4 Serial ata controllor

And you would just simple disable the PATA one...


I tried Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory which is Gayforce as well and it works too.

i have sata hdd =) 2 raid 0 and 1 just normal. i only see "nvidia nforce4 Serial ata controllor" in scsi and raid controllor and in there i have the following:
->D37PRT SCSI Controller (daemontool 3.47 i think, didnt want to update cuz 3.47 runs fine )
->Nvidia nforce(tm) raid class controller
->nvidia nforce serial ata raid controller
->nvidia nforce serial ata raid controller

[DJSLY]

i have a nforce 4 mobo

and under ide ata/atapi controllor

i just have "nvidia nforce4 parallel ata controllor"

do i just disable that?

thank you

If thats the only thing you see then you have your harddrive and your dvd-drive are using one parallel cable. Disabling that would crash your computer (obviously because they're on the same cable). You need to buy a SATA (serial ata) harddrive for the trick to work. So in your device manager, you would see:

-nvidia nforce4 parallel ata controllor
-nvidia nforce4 Serial ata controllor

And you would just simple disable the PATA one...


I tried Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory which is Gayforce as well and it works too.

[balance]

i have a nforce 4 mobo

and under ide ata/atapi controllor

i just have "nvidia nforce4 parallel ata controllor"

do i just disable that?

thank you