Another way to defeat starforce.

[AnalCobra]

Youcan buy an IDE Controller but therfore you've to open up your pc too.

[DomiOh]

I never heard of voiding warranty by opening and upgrading your computer.
Btw: X3 WILL NOT work by only disabling the channel.

Hey Dexxa: are you from germany?
In germany you won't void your warranty by opening your pc.
There should be no warranty seal at your tower.

[Dexxa88]

No i am from sweden.
They sat a warranty like that just to make them not to open up the computer and destroy something.
They dont want to repair something that (maybe) i intended to destroy in the computer (not that i would), but you never know.

/Dexxa

[DomiOh]

That sounds strange to me.
That's one of the reasons I never would buy a "ready" system.
I only buy components. But I am able to build a computer system myself.
But not everyone can do this.

So I respect you don't want to open your PC.

[Dexxa88]

Well i am going in an IT school so i can (If i cant) build my own system.
But it was my mother who bought this computer for me, so there was nothing i could do =P

/Dexxa

[dario77]

I posted this way on gamecopyworld too.I will be happy if somebody test it.for me it works perfectly.Here is the method:

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.This trick works for X3 Reunion also.

I made a little research and a few experiments for the problem with PC freezing or rebooting during disk verification of starforce.Often this is caused by emulations and virtual device of alcohol 120%.To fix this it is needed first to uncheck all things in Emulation and Extra emulation in File->options menu of alcohol 120% and second disable the alcohol 120% virtual device by setting Number of virtual devices ( File -> options->Virtual device ) to 0.There is no need to uninstall alcohol 120% completely.

Same procedure I described long time ago in thread "Hint how to build new SF3 immune configuration" (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/t728...guration.html).

Edit by NetSoerfer: Repaired the link. Direct links to our own site are perfectly okay

[Proach]

Hi there,

First of all thank you for this tip, but I'm afraid this won't work for me.
All I see is this:


I do have an nforce motherboard, but I can't disable the "Nvidia nForce4 Parallel ATA controller"

I tried this for the game "knights of the temple"

any suggestions?

[AnalCobra]

That means that your harddrives are connected to this controller so you can't disable it. If you disable it with SFN your pc will crash.

[pilispring]

i can't disable, only desinstall or update. Is it because i use a portable?

[bryanondabeach]

it's 6.00am here, i just read this thread about disabling Standard Dual Channel PCI Ide Controller to make SF protected games work. So, you guys are trying to tell me that I can play most SF3 games because I've an Nforce4? (A8N32-SLi Deluxe) If so... thanks a lot for this workaround!!!!!!! As soon as i've got some spare time I'll try.

[Underheaven]

pointing to thread SCSI Blacklists - or why some perfect images won't run with Daemon

it's 6.00am here, i just read this thread about disabling Standard Dual Channel PCI Ide Controller to make SF protected games work. So, you guys are trying to tell me that I can play most SF3 games because I've an Nforce4? (A8N32-SLi Deluxe) If so... thanks a lot for this workaround!!!!!!! As soon as i've got some spare time I'll try.

Check out this post:
SCSI Blacklists - or why some perfect images won't run with Daemon Tools v4

[MatteKalle]

Well it wont work with mine either then I suppose because it looks exactly as it does for Proach...only NVIDIA-stuff there. But I dont understand...because I only have my dvd-burner conected to my mainboard. ...my harddrive is conected with serial ATA. ...shouldt I get it to work then?

[Underheaven]

SCSI Blacklists - or why some perfect images won't run with Daemon Tools v4

the requirement for SCSI blacklists is the presence of optical IDE drives thus if you connect your dvd-burner via an IDE cable you won't succeed against Starforce 3.xx

[NetSoerfer]

Both P-ATA and S-ATA are IDE based, keep that in mind. You need to unplug all your optical IDE drives to get StarForce running.

[Hellyy]

re

i don't have any NForce Parallel Boards
i have ASUS P4S8X Mainboard
2 internal drives DVD and CD-RW
2 HDs not sata HD
In ATAPI/IDE at device manager i only have the following options:
-IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers:
-IDE Primary Channel
-IDE Secondary Channel
-SiS 5513 IDE UDMA Controller

Am i missing some drivers? can some1 help me pls?