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[IgeL]

Just thought you people might be interested in this... http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33763491

I have that shit on my computer too. I wonder if this is the reason why one of my USB memory sticks doesn't work in this 'puter, when it works in everyone else's...

 

[Mrbob]

It is funny how people who warez games run into less hassles than those who buy full retail copies.

 

[The Faceless Master]

after reading that thread and the threads linked, it sounds rediculous... the hidden drivers cause conflucts with USB devices and can also use up t0 20% CPU... WTF!?

 

[fennec fox]

This is why I immediately no-cd all games after installation. There's no reason I have to pay a penalty for being a lawful customer.

 

[Mrbob]

But this is much, much worse.

They are throwing frigging spyware on your computer. Nice way to help with copy protection.

 

[Culex]

I have these damn drivers on my PC, too. And the uninstaller from Star Force didn't get rid of them.

 

[The Shadow]

This is why I immediately no-cd all games after installation. There's no reason I have to pay a penalty for being a lawful customer.

I don't think No-CD cracks help. Once you install the game, you're installing that driver. Even if you use a no-CD crack, those drivers are still there.


Fuck. I don't have any of those drivers intalled on my box but I have a dreamcatcher game that I was planning to install and that was one of the "suspect" companies that uses the protection.

Edit:

Fucking confirmed. It *IS* on Broken Sword 3. That's real irony for you. I was going to install my legit and fully paid for PC version but to avoid that viral copy protection, I think I'll just rent the Xbox version and dump it to my Xbox HDD.

This is so stupid...Why even bother buying games if they're going to pull crap like this. Kind of reminds me of the whole Quicken fiasco when they would actually add a secret partition to your system HDD.

 

[Mairu]

What a bunch of bullshit

-1 PC Gaming
+1 PC Ports to Consoles

 

[Slo]

And this kind of crap is stripped out of the pirated versions of games?

 

[Sagitario]

Good thing I don't play PC games... .

 

[GDJustin]

I thought this thread title said "StarFox" at first and I was confused as hell.

 

[Mashing]

I checked my machine and thankfully I do not have that shit on my computer.

 

[golem]

This is why I immediately no-cd all games after installation. There's no reason I have to pay a penalty for being a lawful customer.

same here..

 

[Brannon]

PC games already have the ass end of the deal trying to handing multiple configurations, and they throw THIS CRAP at consumers too? As always, I'll support the No-CD option, and fuck all who support crap like this.

To the devs, what part of I CAN D/L A BETTER PLAYING PIRATED VERSION IF I WANTED do you NOT understand?

Seriously, for fuck's sake.

This will remove the that shit permanently, btw.

 

[Uncle Dukey]

I completely agree with removing cd-checks. I think people who are going to pirate the game will do so whether a cd-check is in place or not. I think it would be great if companies just recognized this and didn't use them. For example, it was nice of Epic to remove the UT2004 cd-check in the first patch.

 

[SKluck]

Not on my PC... yet. But I plan on buying a codemasters game later this month (Soldiers), I hope that doesn't have this shit on it.

EA actually had the balls to put a cd check for Battlefield Vietnam before EVERY MAP loads. So my drive is needlessly spun up and load times bogged down to check if I bought the game up to 5 times in an hour.

 

[Error Macro]

Shit, I found that StarForce bullshit on my PC just now... It must have come from that TOCA 2 demo I installed last month, just like they said in that thread on Rage 3D. Thanks for the heads up.