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StarForce Copy Protection Causing User Ire

Posted by simoniker on from the ire-and-brimstone dept.

Ant writes "According to a thread on the Rage3D boards, and another on The Adventure Company's site, the copy protection system StarForce, as used in PC videogames including Toca Race Driver 2, Traitor's Gate 2 and Broken Sword 3, is installed on a user's PC without proper explanation, and doesn't get removed on many uninstalls - some users report difficulty in keeping their systems stable due to conflicts, and think they've tracked it down to the StarForce protection."

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  1. En Route to Iscandar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On that topic, I'd like to be the first to say: The Earth has only 215 days left!

  2. A sequel? by BenjyD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They made a sequel to Traitor's gate? The first one was awful enough - hours of wandering around identical looking sewers in order to find the key to a door so I can go wander around another set of identical looking sewers. All in Myst style graphics.
    Why bother copy protecting it at all - surely nobody in their right mind would waste a whole CDR on copying something that bad