With the Starforce copy protection that has limited activations and is tied to your hardware config and people saying it has poor frame rate there is no fucking way I am buying it. How about you?
I will buy it, and so is a mate of mine. I have been following this for a long time. I would prefer if it could run without the disc in the drive. I hope that the package released to Europe is reminiscent of the boxed sets you got with Microprose's Gunship etc. I don't mind paying a bit more for a lot of bumpf included.
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"Lange" <lange@arodnap(<--- reverse this).be> wrote in message news:q1YVk.8048$XQ2.2009@newsfe20.ams2...
Tip: don't change drivers if they work OK, it's not worth the hassle, nor
the time.
Sometimes you have no choice but to install new drivers for new games. I suspect Starforce of damaging 2 of my optical drives. 2 optical drives developed the exact same issue one after the other right after installing a game with Starforce. I have the FC version of Starforce installed but that is a non optical drive version so has given me no issues. I also expect Starforce latest version behaves better than the early version I suspect of messing up my drives. Thing is; are the limited installs a permanent amount or can we email for more if we were to run out?
With the Starforce copy protection that has limited activations and is tied
to your hardware config and people saying it has poor frame rate there is no
fucking way I am buying it. How about you?
For me there is 2 reasons why I won't buy DCS: Black Shark.
1. Since they decided to go to bed with NP and discriminate old TrackIR 1 and TrackIR 2 users (i.e you need to buy a new TrackIR 4 from NP for it to work at all).
2. Don't really like StarForce but could live with it until I heard that the upcoming English DVD-version will have StarForce + limited on-line activations as well.
To bad since I was looking forward to a realistic helicopter simulator and I wish ED/TFC all the best but can't really understand why they do things like they do...
"Rod" <rodp@hotmail.com.removeme> wrote in message news:qudji4tekkaujtosaq3hre99isq83ee1da@4ax.com...
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:06:51 -0500, "W Spilman" <fart@stink.com>
wrote:
Sometimes you have no choice but to install new drivers for new games.
I
suspect Starforce of damaging 2 of my optical drives. 2 optical drives
developed the exact same issue one after the other right after
installing
a
game with Starforce. I have the FC version of Starforce installed but
that
is a non optical drive version so has given me no issues. I also
expect
Starforce latest version behaves better than the early version I
suspect
of
messing up my drives. Thing is; are the limited installs a permanent
amount
or can we email for more if we were to run out?
Care to explain how a software package could damage an optical drive?!
Cheers,
Rod.
By altering the drive's firmware?
Fair point but highly unlikely.
Starforce installs drivers that detect CD/DVD writers. (I had a PC with two DVD Writers and had to dump one for a reader)
under Windows XP, if packets are lost during the reading or writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility mode rendering a CD/DVD writer virtually unusable. In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results in physical hardware failure (Most commonly in multiformat CD/DVD writer drives). A sure sign of this step down occurring is that the burn speeds will get slower and slower (no matter what speed you select to burn at). Starforce, on a regular basis, triggers this silent step down. Until it reaches the latter stages most people do not even realise it is happening.
It has been reported by many users that the slowdown caused by StarForce on some recent multiformat DVD writers can cause irreversible hardware failures on those drives (they aren't recognized anymore)
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