General Mcclintock 0 Posted November 2, 2005 This may be a bit on the borderline of the rules but I am not looking at promoting a warez discussion by this. In fact I am actually on this discussion to determine if OFP 2 is going to be a good buy for my computer, well onto the point then. There have been travelling around a tool that was made to counter the effects of StarForce. With that tool a readme was included. Careful research by the developers had determined that StarForce was a very agressive copy protection, the way it operates is quite well... Awful. It interferres with a part of the computer nothing should even think of touching, the IDE array. The results of the tampering and reseting that StarForce does to the array to check for legal copy has other harmful effects. I have seen first hand experience and felt the effects of these drivers, they have been corrupting a partition table for me as well as rendering other programs and drivers unuseable. It can corrupt data in some cases due to the way it works with the IDE array and that is a risk I am no longer willing to take. Maybe this is more of question to the developers what they chose to go with. I will buy OFP 2 but ONLY and mark me on these words ONLY if it has a different copy protection than StarForce. If you chose to go with StarForce I will not buy the game, not even with a M16 pointed at my head, because in my eyes that copy protection is classified as a virus! Starforce = I normally don't care what kind of protection is used, but when it comes to StarForce I have learned too much about it to look away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shinRaiden 0 Posted November 2, 2005 Extensive discussion of opinions etc about Punkbuster and Starforce here Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
