StarForce and Your system stability and integrity

Sinister · Post by **Sinister** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:58 am

How great Star Force is...
Qoute below taken from this site:
http://www.diesimfanboi.com/software/ba ... cliffs.htm

"This system is absolutely horrible for the consumer and many people are complaining on the official forums that they've had to use multiple activations to get the sim running or have run out of activations altogether. Starforce technical support have given some people an extra 2 activations when they've run out.

I emailed the developer asking what does a consumer do after they've used their 5 activations - the reply was "First of all you need to contact us. Next step - you buy a new serial number for the game". This seems too wrong to be right so I've asked for a further clarification."

So the impact of Star-Farce is beyond frame rate, its the ability to reinstall games, and worse... the boycott page has a forum filling up with damaged hardware and lost data.

For me, my system randomly wouldnt recognize the primary HDD when hard boot up and required many restarts. After removal of SF, this problem has totally gone away.

This driver they install on systems without enduser notification is the problem at hand. I have SHIII and Chaos Theory and LockOn FC; but they arent worth playing if it costs my system stability (or worse for some).

From Sinister
I also Contacted them in regards to my code because I had a few instances where the game wouldnt launch and kept asking me for a new code.. then said I didnt have any left.. they said for me to contact them and they would send me another one.. but if i have to reformat my hd I am gonna raise complete hell if i Have to pay for another reg code.. Does this seem right to you THunderBirds....My system has become very unstable ever since installing Flaming Cliffs.. never thought this could have been linked to it.. I havent uninstalled it yet.. would like to know what you guys can find out .. seeing that they support you guys and give you the ins on whats going on with the programming

SilverOne · Post by **SilverOne** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:01 am

rofl that's sooo retarded, gave me a laught actualy, i heard there's only 1 crack for it , never realy spent my time lookin n trying to work with it.

that's one of the reasons i don't like lomac, n they know it.

Funky · Post by **Funky** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:57 pm

I've never had severe problems like your do, but I know how it feel like to have them.
My experience with SF hasn't been great, but not that bad either. Sometimes, it asks me to activate when I'm trying to load the game, but all I do is cancel and rerun the game and it works. Last month, I ran out of activations (I only had 5) for for that, I emailed ED, or whoever's in charge of FC site. About 2 days later, they issued a brand new serial # to me and asked me to use the key registry from then on. Not in a nice tone, but not rude either. Either way, it worked out fine for me.
Maybe you should just email the FC guys instead of SF... but again, I dont know much about these people, and they maybe the same people lol.

Just my 2 cents,

Funky

Burner · Post by **Burner** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:03 am

I too used all my activations trying to install, they gave me a serial with 2 more activations. Since then ED has allowed starforce to grant another ten activations on top of the original five. In any case this doesn't excuse starforce from allowing hackers a free back door and making hardware completely in-operable. That said SF has offered a $1000 reward for anyone that can prove that SF corrupts hardware. Meaning that you have to prove SF writes to the hardware, which is pretty much impossible. Meaning SF takes no responsibillty for messing up your system but has twisted the words of users to construe that if their drivers of destruction are unable to kill a CD-ROM drive (meaning the drive itself obviously the drivers kill the OS that's running it easily and not the hardware) than they are not responsible for their own programming.

If ED simply added in a program that didn't allow copies of FC with the same SN to play on the same server I think all their problems would be solved.

Tailhook · Post by **Tailhook** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:44 am

So wait, the cd only has a number of activation keys until it runs out and I have to contact starforce and they still wont give me a new cd and have to reformat my hard drive if it screws it up. And I will get a $1,000 prize to prove SF screws up a computer. ROFL too bad with my computer skills I could prolly screw around with my lomac and starforce with it just for the $1,000 and then reinstall it with my cousin's disk. But that is gonna tick my off if I am gonna have to get a new disk. Well if I do I got 3 other people and that will create a big problem on Ubisoft's end cause we will probably sue them for every cd and give everybody who wants the game 5 other cd's haha.

Post by **Lawndart** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:55 am

Viper, just let these old thread stay in the grave please... this one was older than the last you reincarnated!

LD