I love playing games, moreover i'm very fond of playing third person games like Legacy of kain series, Max Payne, Devil may cry etc and one ultimate game Prince of persia from ubisoft was jaw dropping game with real time moves and fighting skills.
The last of the trilogy was The Two thrones and i was craving to play it, i got the DVD it from my friend and since he was beckoning me to return it, i made a image of the DVD and tried installing it, it was a clean install but it doesn't work and it says to insert the correct Disc.
So i got a solution to this problem where i need to disconnect my physical drives and play from the image, i thought to myself "why these goddamn protection softwares keep evolving?". I did as per the solution and it worked with my DVD drive unplugged. I didnt actually know how risky was it to override a Starforce protection.
But then i read in internet the actual working of starforce protection
1. While the game installs it also stealthily installs drivers(why drivers for a game?), which is done without the knowledge of the user and it asks for restart(which is unavoidable).
Actually drivers are hardware specific and it is the only set of programs that enables the hardware to work properly, this is very dangerous territory indeed.
2. Starforce drivers are not hardware specific and hence it makes the hardware to work beyond the safety margins.
3. This could lead to irrepairable damage to the device such as DVD writer has problem in writing.
There are many case where there are issues of destruction of SATA hard disks while attempting to remove Starforce drivers from the computer using some removal tools (In no other ways this can be removed exception to formatting of the PC)
These issues happened even to legitimate users where the same procedure is done irrespective of the legit copy or copy of the original.
So guys beware of the games you are installing and also the protection system it has!
Play Safe!
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