I dont want Steam to be broken! Steam, suprisingly enough, WORKS!
Even though it was bump at first, it WORKS and works well!
Beware what your game installs on your PC!
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Steam is a silly bloated piece of software, that doesn't do anthing usefull. Just another attempt to protect their software.
As for protection that works, I don't know. maybe the protection of Cubase, where you need an external piece of hardware (a thing that looks like an USB-Stick) in the USB drive to run the program. Dunno if it's cracked or not. It is kinda the same as checking if the CD is in the drive. But the stick kinda looks cool.
As for protection that works, I don't know. maybe the protection of Cubase, where you need an external piece of hardware (a thing that looks like an USB-Stick) in the USB drive to run the program. Dunno if it's cracked or not. It is kinda the same as checking if the CD is in the drive. But the stick kinda looks cool.
next to an improved "get more mods" option. no other of such features need to be in the lobbie. what are we going to do, order a pizza with it?
Sream is a replacement for the menu in the games. joinging a game, single player, screen\ key settings, updateing, you name it? Well, all of it already was in all the games, so it actually was totally useless. exept that valve forced us to use it. Back in the days when I didn't had a whooping PC, I wasn't all to happy running a bloated program for something that wasn't needed. <as for all the other featuers of it, why is the Site still up? I want a site, not a program that replaces it>
But that's just me babbeling. The topic was protection. and stream protects the software quite good, as long as you go and multi-player with it.
Sream is a replacement for the menu in the games. joinging a game, single player, screen\ key settings, updateing, you name it? Well, all of it already was in all the games, so it actually was totally useless. exept that valve forced us to use it. Back in the days when I didn't had a whooping PC, I wasn't all to happy running a bloated program for something that wasn't needed. <as for all the other featuers of it, why is the Site still up? I want a site, not a program that replaces it>
But that's just me babbeling. The topic was protection. and stream protects the software quite good, as long as you go and multi-player with it.
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PauloMorfeo
- Posts: 2004
- Joined: 15 Dec 2004, 20:53
BURN STARFORCE!!!!
I really must insist on this as i'm super pissed off!!!!
I recently had to reinstall my gaming/parents Windows XP instalation. It was super unstable. Everytime i had to open something that accessed devices (Windows Explorer, Disc Managment, Control Panel, etc, etc, etc), the system would hang up to minutes, continuously while i would try to work with those tools.
In the forums of the portuguese Linux Caixa Mágica, i was warning them about Star-Force. Then, i go check the links i provided and give another quick look at the games list. What's my surprise when i find out in there the game "Beyond Divinity". Funny thing cause it was one of the game's demos i've tried around the time those problems started ocurring.
Again, here are 2 sites with lists of games using Star-Force:
http://www.similarities.org/starforce.html
http://www.glop.org/starforce/
Ain't it funny, too, that some of the games have that «protection» crap ONLY in the european versions?
On Tom's Hardware Guide, you have an article about it
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/01/the_w ... index.html
I recently had to reinstall my gaming/parents Windows XP instalation. It was super unstable. Everytime i had to open something that accessed devices (Windows Explorer, Disc Managment, Control Panel, etc, etc, etc), the system would hang up to minutes, continuously while i would try to work with those tools.
In the forums of the portuguese Linux Caixa Mágica, i was warning them about Star-Force. Then, i go check the links i provided and give another quick look at the games list. What's my surprise when i find out in there the game "Beyond Divinity". Funny thing cause it was one of the game's demos i've tried around the time those problems started ocurring.
Again, here are 2 sites with lists of games using Star-Force:
http://www.similarities.org/starforce.html
http://www.glop.org/starforce/
Ain't it funny, too, that some of the games have that «protection» crap ONLY in the european versions?
On Tom's Hardware Guide, you have an article about it
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/01/the_w ... index.html
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The way StarForce and a couple of its cousins does this is one of the more disturbing developments in the videogame war on piracy. StarForce installs a hidden driver onto your machine along with the game itself, without any explicit warnings. This driver is required to play the game and is not uninstalled with the game. It also has a rather disturbing tendency to re-install itself after either manual removal or cleanup using a provided tool that has to be hunted for across the Internet.
These new protection systems do not simply protect software from direct attempts to pirate it - they also proactively search out potential piracy threats on one's system and then prevent them from working. Programs such as Nero and Alcohol 120% are obvious targets here, though I have seen far more erratic and often times seemingly random tantrums taken by these systems. These range from disabling the recording device in Windows Media Player, to preventing access to the CD drive both on the software and hardware side. I usually find myself pressing the button to open the CD drive and then having to log out of Windows for it to do what it's supposed to!
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In an interview with Firing Squad, the makers of StarForce strenuously denied the fact that their driver causes problems to all but a slim minority of user systems. They then went on to state that the EULA covers them and the publishers from all liability of damage done by their copy protection. In other words, "we state that it doesn't cause problems, but if it does, we're covered by the EULA and you're not."
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While these copy protection methods are finding their way onto an increasing amount of videogames, the ironic thing is that despite all the hassle they create for honest users, they don't work all that well. I've seen as many cracked copies of "protected" videogames on the Internet as unprotected games. The real joke is the fact that the cracked versions of the games do not come with the disruptive copy protection - meaning that the pirates do not suffer the ill effects of the driver that are inflicted upon legitimate paying customers.
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