Star Force Protection driver patch

[regi]

Hi,
Again got a problem. The other day when I installed "Blazing Angels" into my laptop with Win 7 an error massage comes as " Star Force Protection driver is not compatible without a patch ". I never had this problem before when I was using the same game in Win XP. From where can I get the patch and how do I fix this problem.

- Regi

 

[UnderCover00J]

Have a read of this article from the Star Force website, shpuld provide you with the information you need.

Software Protection. Update Remove Driver

 

[RogerR]

I've tried that - not working for me ...

 

[Shiori]

I have the same problem with Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

 

[RogerR]

I ended up having to remove the game (Xpand Rally) to get away from the driver errors. Ran fine under XP.

 

[Frostmourne]

As you've found out some idiotic protection drivers will stop you playing game on 7. I tried Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood and startup repair had to fix the starforce driver that was incompatible with x64 7 twice. Got rid of it the second time - thought it was the driver - so some games will not work as it seems they rely on their own drivers.

 

[RogerR]

As you've found out some idiotic protection drivers will stop you playing game on 7.

Boy, you aren't kidding. My kids were PO'd when they thought they were going to game and instead had Dad swearing at their computer for 2 hours!

 

[Andras Banusz]

Unfortunately, StarForce doesn't want to support it's own protection system. It says on their website, that versions before 3 are not compatible, and never will be with Windows 7. I have bought a legit copy of GT Legends, and couldn't use it, because of the stupid StarForce drivers. I got fed up, and downloaded a cracked EXE with no protection, I installed the game, cracked it, and happily playing it on Windows 7. That's a big flip-off, from me, to StarForce, with love. Jerks.

 

[edja]

Unfortunately, StarForce doesn't want to support it's own protection system. It says on their website, that versions before 3 are not compatible, and never will be with Windows 7. I have bought a legit copy of GT Legends, and couldn't use it, because of the stupid StarForce drivers. I got fed up, and downloaded a cracked EXE with no protection, I installed the game, cracked it, and happily playing it on Windows 7. That's a big flip-off, from me, to StarForce, with love. Jerks.

how could u do that?

 

[doggy]

not abel to play 1944 battle of the bulge. Every time i try to load it up that starforce protection driver doesn't work with windows 7. tryed starforce web page, down loaded the 5.5 and still not working anyone got a clue.

 

[LPDad]

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.

 

[heismark]

Can it be played via Linux on an emulator?

Can it be played via Linux on an emulator?

 

[Julio Cortez]

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.

 

[heismark]

Well I am giving up. This is the 2nd Funcom game that gives me problems; the other had a flaw a partiular place in the game, that kept you from going on. Guess I am through with Funcom and any came carrying SP.

 

[favret]

To remove starforce protection run sfclean as amministrator (on your pc) and reboot as asked from the program. Now if you want to run a game protected with starforce you need a patch that you should find at GAME COPY WORLD the name of the patch should be NO CD or other but here i think we cannot say.

 

[Koos51]

Hi,
Again got a problem. The other day when I installed "Blazing Angels" into my laptop with Win 7 an error massage comes as " Star Force Protection driver is not compatible without a patch ". I never had this problem before when I was using the same game in Win XP. From where can I get the patch and how do I fix this problem.

- Regi

thanks

 

[Koos51]

please just tel me if i can get the patch i do not know all this must or not

 

[favret]

blazing angels patch

yes yuo can have it at GameCopyWorld - Blazing Angels: Squadron of World War II - NoCD No-CD No-DVD Trainers & Game Fixes Angels v1.02 [ENGLISH] No-DVD/Fixed Files
GameCopyWorld - Blazing Angels: Squadron of World War II - NoCD No-CD No-DVD Trainers & Game Fixes Angels [ENGLISH] No-CD/Fixed Image

 

[SlasherIT]

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

 

[bwc001]

Xpand rally Starforce drivers

I recently had a starforce driver error after installing Xpand rally. I downloaded the update from starforce website and it works fine now and no errors at startup.
Go here
Software Copy Protection | Windows 7 support