Posted by Drastic at 1:41 PM on April 6, 2006
It's a low-percentage chance, but who needs it? Windows should redetect properly on boot-up, and they'll be in DMA again.Īgain, it's easiest to simply never let it get to that point by keeping it off your system. If it has been switched to PIO, the easiest way to get things working again is to uninstall the primary and secondary IDE channels and then reboot. Plus, if your organizational skills are like mine, finding a cd can be a hassle sometimes, and what gamer has the attention span for that? :) ) (Following geoff.'s advice is still sound, because if nothing else, even the potential is a good thing to avoid. If you've had it on your system for awhile, you can check your drives' status by going to device manager, drilling down to your IDE/ATAPI devices listing, right clicking on the primary and secondary IDE channels and going into properties/advanced properties. There's also apparently some potential security exploits from it having such base rootkit-level access to things, but they apparently haven't been hit yet.Īlso, the company's idea of good public relations hasn't quite yet moved to the level of stabbing puppies in the eyes, but give them a year or two more. This is one of the reasons that Starforce is so hated.Best answer: Starforce will allegedly over time sometimes cause optical drives to "step down" to PIO mode, which at the very best degrades their performance, and at the very worst can cause longer-term problems. Since the last sentence I quoted sounds like the problem you're having, I fear that you have a Starforce 3.0 protected game that cannot be made to work on a 64-bit OS. Earlier versions would reboot the system or simply refuse to run the application on such systems." 圆4 file in the software's install directory. StarForce-protected software that works on 64-bit Windows can be identified by the presence of a. For example, to add 64-bit support to a game built before StarForce supported it, a developer would be required to create patches specific to their product(s)." The wiki also says this about Starforce 3.5: "Added support for 64-bit systems. The wiki states: "Protection Technology provides a driver update tool, but it does not widen compatibility for StarForce-protected games. You will find little love here for Starforce, but the wikipedia entry for Starforce states that the way to update Starforce is here:īut I am not hopeful that it will solve your problem.
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