Star Force Protection driver patch

What els can be done???
You bought the game.
"THEY" refuse to support it on windows 7.

I must agree with Darician and Orbital Shark.

Here is another topic about it. It looks like you're not alone.. At least :)

By the way, I came to the conclusion that the solutions can only be two: An XP partition to play legacy games (which is what I went for eventually) or no-DVD executables.

I gladly paid for some Starforce-protected software of my interest, only to see that it won't work with Windows 7. On the other hand, people who downloaded the exact same titles off the net with no-DVD exes can play anytime they want, even on Windows 7.
Well done Starforce, well done.

Fortunately I have an old MSDN key for XP and I'm using that for legacy games or for *cough* crappy protected *cough* games that won't work in Windows 7, otherwise I would be yet another pirate. I wouldn't pay for an XP key just for gaming.

EDIT: by the way, on a more serious note, I can see why Starforce dropped support for Windows 7 for the older versions of their protections: having to adapt/rewrite those old drivers for the x64 Windows 7 might have been too expensive or time consuming.
I still understand customers like me that paid for the software and now cannot get it to work and firmly believe that we should be able to still use the software we've paid for, but notice that on the boxes of every game we're talking about there were printed the system specs and Windows 7, of course, wasn't mentioned anywhere.
So we've been granted that the software worked with XP, but no one told us about whether the software would work or not with Windows 7.
I do hope that the publishers released updates for their games removing the DRM which don't work anymore from the exes (usually they're games from 4 to 7-8 years old, so I wouldn't really care about DRM anymore if I were the publisher), but it likely won't happen.
So, a legacy OS is still my #1 choice.

It is not illegal to use a No-CD patch, especially in your case as without one, you can't play the game you have bought with your hard earned cash. You still need the serial key of the game, which you have bought, so its perfectly fine to do so. Due to forum rules, links to these are not allowed.

Slasher