Posted at 2:17pm on Tue 23 January 2007 |
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VG_Staff- Posts: 18,022
| Trackmania United's new community features set it apart from the pack.
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Posted at 2:17pm on Tue 23 January 2007 |
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vandy- Posts: 225
| I'm all over this like a bad rash, Trackmania is awesome fun. I can't wait. :) |
Posted at 6:52pm on Tue 23 January 2007 |
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Not me
| All Nadeo's games have a virus called Starforce. Yes, even the FREE DOWNLOADABLE one. So, they can count me out. And everyone should have a long though and think, is it wise to support firm like that? I know my stance, do YOU know yours? |
Posted at 7:00pm on Tue 23 January 2007 |
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vandy- Posts: 225
| I presume you're referring to StarForce, which isn't a virus but copy protection that's known for causing some 'issues'. Never had a problem personally but I do remove it whenever I finish with a game that used it. |
Posted at 1:45am on Wed 24 January 2007 |
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Nxs- Posts: 853
| Just a thought here but, why have a CP on a free game? Trackmania would be great if it wasn't for the pos SF  |
Posted at 7:41am on Wed 24 January 2007 |
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Not me
| Calling SF a virus, was an intentional choice ;) On games, which you pay for, anyone can use SF, if they want. I just won't use my money on that. But on a free downloadable game, what is the reason for that? Ubisoft got it, eventually, maybe Nadeo should get it too? Do the right thing, boycott Starforce: www.glop.org/starforce/ |
Posted at 12:58pm on Wed 24 January 2007 |
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mistake
| I think you do a mistake, there is no starforce drivers installed in TrackMania United. |
Posted at 7:11pm on Wed 24 January 2007 |
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Not me
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Posted at 10:24pm on Wed 24 January 2007 |
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mistake
| the author writes: "Just so you guys know, the guy who owns the PC we ran Trackmania United on will be posting his detailed report on what exactly went wrong on Angry Gamer in a few days. Stay tuned"
because Racemaniac explains that there is no drivers installed, so it is illogical to have any hardware related problem with Starforce with TrackMania United: there is no driver installed. |
Posted at 11:42pm on Wed 24 January 2007 |
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in10sive- Posts: 2
| Actually Starforce is on the free version.
It popped up the other day when Zonealarm was scanning and I tried to run the game.Starforce popped up and said there was a problem and I should reinstall.
Fortunatelky it ran fine after the scan finished.
Oh by the way I think Bethesda has woken up to,I got Star Trek Legacy and the DVD has copy protection but I discovered once it is installed the game runs without the disc,no cracks nothing.
I guess they are starting to realize it's a waste of money seeing as Starforce can be beaten aswell.
All my Starforce protected games are beaten either with a crack or ISO image so why waste the money,spend it on development rather.
I have two drives on my pc,the cdrw nolonger works and my dvdrw nolonger autoplays and is slow reading discs all this after installing the downloaded free TM Nations
All Nadeo games come with SF which replaces your standard windows cd driver with its own.
Here is a qoute from Glop.com I have found similar info on other sites.
For example, here's one of the common problems brought by Starforce: 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.
If you arn't sure if SF is on your computer right click my computer select Properties and the Hardware tab. Enter the device manager:
Select view show hidden devices.
If you have Staforce, it will be listed under the Non-plug and play drivers tree:
The removal toll can be downloaded here http://www.glop.org/starforce/remove.php although doing so will render the game unplayable. |
