Salut à tous.
Malheureusement pour tout ceux qui ont la boite originale et qui n'arrivent pas a faire fonctionner Splinter Cell 3....
Votre probleme ce n'est pas Splinter Cell votre probleme c'est => Starforce.
En effet les éminents dévellopeurs de cette protection completement basée sur la paranoia du piratage ont été un poil violents quant au parametres qui font que votre dvd original passera ou passera pas :D
C'est tout con si vous avez une carte mere recente a base de nforce 2 ou 3+ ca marchera pas d'apres ce que j'ai pu comprendr ( saufs certains cas exceptionnels oO)
La protection se contrefout de votre hardware si bien que si vous possedez les dernieres technologies auxquelles Starforce n'est pas habitué bah touchez vous ^^.
Ci- joint un petit texte en anglais qui vous expliquera mieux que moi :
(ceci est inclus dans le fichier ReadMe de l'utilitaire Starforce Nightmare)
Since starforce version 3.4.65.09 to prevent old starfuck methods for deactivating cd drives starforce goes a very hardware incompatible way.
StarForce protected game tries to reset ide channel before it begins to check protected disk. Therefore this can take up to 2 minutes before starforce begins with its disk check.
All users, who have CD drive on SCSI controller, ATAPI CD Drive on ATA/RAID controller, CD drive on USB controller and even coming hardware innovation called CD drive on SATA controller, all those users are
involved by this hardware incompability issue of Starfore protection. This hardware incompability appears even than, if you remove all your drives from IDE channel physically and deactivate your IDE channels in BIOS to set needed resources free, also you don't even
need to use our program to find it out. That's, what you get with Starforce.
It seems, starforce team doesn't care about its hardware compability and not just that, they don't care about software compability of their product, for which they want money.
If they try to reset the channel, they "play" with priority system of windows os, therefore don't wonder if your computer will crash or after few times starting the starforce protected game in such environment you will not be able to start any windows application more.
It happens since
starforce version 3.4.65.09 and above.
On our test systems we were very often able to reproduce this software crash issue.
As you see, all what starforce has done before is useless. What they added to the protection is just rapidly increased hardware and software incompability, nothing more, nothing less.
It's diffucult to imagine, what will be next hardware/software incompability level, if starforce tries to prevent methods present in this program. How far they will go with their paranoid idea to don't care about the hardware and software compability of their protection?
How it will work on coming PCI Express? How it will work with controllers in native mode?
I have already noticed many problems with starforce and native mode controllers.
For example most of Nforce2,3+ users can already set their IDE controller in native mode since windows xp sp1
And in the near feature native mode for IDE controllers will be necessity for coming windows systems to get "Windows hardware logo" from Microsoft. As you see, the world of hardware don't stay on the same level, but all what starforce do is degrading its hardware and software compability.
If you, as game developer or distributer, bring your software, games or updates to users you have to take into account, that even with update of starforce protection the compability of your software will rapidly sink instead expected improvements. Especially by considering last
events.
Still want to protect your games with starforce?
As user you have to take into account, that if you buy new hardware, for example, just new motherboard, it may happen, that your favorite games will not run on such system due the hardware incompability with starforce protection.
Or if you are already a owner of last computer hardware and starforce game started till now without problems, than you can just install update on your game and you will no more be able to run it from original
disk on your computer.
Still want to buy such games protected by starforce?
You see, to create this program you need deep expert knowledge of hardware architecture and as you see, we have it, else this program wouldn't exist.
All, what I want to say with, my opinion described above is not just yeasty words, it is reality. So think about it, what you buy for your money.
La solution : Boycotter les jeux protégés par Starforce ...
