Sniper Elite image?, and which portection key?.

[dunno]

I intend purchasing "Sniper Elite", could you please tell me which software protection I should run the game with, and, do I use .mds for the image file ?

thank you

[AnalCobra]

It's Starforce 3.6.10.03 protected, you need an mds image with a good dpm (slow read speed high precisiom, as an alternative download one from copybase.ch or gamecopyworld.com).
Mount it using DTv4 (RMPS emulatione enabled) and you've to unplug/disconnect your optical IDE-Drives. Try it without unplugging if you've an nForce 3/4 motherboard, RAID Controller. Or try StarForce Nightmare but this shouldn't work, unplugging will normally be the only solution.
SFN:

https://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils_8.shtml