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Hi to all At Daemon Tools
Ok lets get a few things straight, I download demos I do not download games and believe that the game creators, programers, and deserve there money as its there bread and butter and they do alot of work.
However I also believe that we as a consumer should be able to be able to backup your STORE bought games without the need to bypass this protection stuff as it protects your discs from damage and protects your store bought investments.
Anyway 3 days ago I went and bought UFO:AfterShock I have most Xcom games they my favorite style of game anyway I installed it in my (DVD) drive and was horrified to see that during transit (or in the shop) it had a rather small but scary scuff on it However the game did install fine.
So I got out the old DVD writer out and opened alcohol and backed up the game, I then put my Original Disc back in the case and put it with the rest of my colection only to have to bring it out everytime I play it because of this dam starforce So I read all you guys thoughts and problems with star force and tried all the methods but the only one that worked was Daemon tools 4 and disconecting my drives.
So I decided to fiddle and found a few really funny things.
1. My game will work without disconnecting or hiding my CD Writer I'm assuming that starforce only detects the IDE Drive for the media the original game is on so I found by mounting a created iso and simply removing the DVD Writer makes it work.
2. I have tried pairing my DVD Writer up with hard drive and the protection just froze, I tried putting my CD Writer as a Master on the Second IDE Channel but the dam star force got the DVD writer again.
3. After Further research I found out that starforce Nightmare simply disables the windows Optical drives profile the later protection version detects it and wont work I am also researching software ways to stop windows detecting the drive period not just hiding them but it seems hard cos windows uses plug and play however I believe maybe by modifying the bus controller driver on my system I maybe able to get around this, however I would like anyone who is willing to help bash starforce to put up your starForce problems and any litle tweaks and errors you find out so we can work on them.
Because we all know there isn't a single program that can't be reverse engineered they just take time.
Ok lets get a few things straight, I download demos I do not download games and believe that the game creators, programers, and deserve there money as its there bread and butter and they do alot of work.
However I also believe that we as a consumer should be able to be able to backup your STORE bought games without the need to bypass this protection stuff as it protects your discs from damage and protects your store bought investments.
Anyway 3 days ago I went and bought UFO:AfterShock I have most Xcom games they my favorite style of game anyway I installed it in my (DVD) drive and was horrified to see that during transit (or in the shop) it had a rather small but scary scuff on it However the game did install fine.
So I got out the old DVD writer out and opened alcohol and backed up the game, I then put my Original Disc back in the case and put it with the rest of my colection only to have to bring it out everytime I play it because of this dam starforce So I read all you guys thoughts and problems with star force and tried all the methods but the only one that worked was Daemon tools 4 and disconecting my drives.
So I decided to fiddle and found a few really funny things.
1. My game will work without disconnecting or hiding my CD Writer I'm assuming that starforce only detects the IDE Drive for the media the original game is on so I found by mounting a created iso and simply removing the DVD Writer makes it work.
2. I have tried pairing my DVD Writer up with hard drive and the protection just froze, I tried putting my CD Writer as a Master on the Second IDE Channel but the dam star force got the DVD writer again.
3. After Further research I found out that starforce Nightmare simply disables the windows Optical drives profile the later protection version detects it and wont work I am also researching software ways to stop windows detecting the drive period not just hiding them but it seems hard cos windows uses plug and play however I believe maybe by modifying the bus controller driver on my system I maybe able to get around this, however I would like anyone who is willing to help bash starforce to put up your starForce problems and any litle tweaks and errors you find out so we can work on them.
Because we all know there isn't a single program that can't be reverse engineered they just take time.
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