What's this about starforce in Vista ?

"What you likely didn't know was the licensed Starforce code buried
deep
within Vista/DX10
Mitch "

Just rereading a few posts and this point Mitch brought up really
caught my eye...any confirmation or elaboration ? I've read that
starforce permanently screws up ones cd/dvd reader and that was the
main objection to starforce

wrote:

> Just rereading a few posts and this point Mitch brought up really
> caught my eye...any confirmation or elaboration ? I've read that
> starforce permanently screws up ones cd/dvd reader and that was the
> main objection to starforce

I've got this bridge you might be interested in buying.

It was a joke. Good eye though

Mitch


> wrote in message
ups.com...
> "What you likely didn't know was the licensed Starforce code buried
> deep
> within Vista/DX10
> Mitch "
>
> Just rereading a few posts and this point Mitch brought up really
> caught my eye...any confirmation or elaboration ? I've read that
> starforce permanently screws up ones cd/dvd reader and that was the
> main objection to starforce
>

Mitch_A wrote:
> It was a joke. Good eye though
>
> Mitch
>

Thanx for the clarification

> wrote in message
ups.com...
> "What you likely didn't know was the licensed Starforce code buried
> deep
> within Vista/DX10
> Mitch "
>
> Just rereading a few posts and this point Mitch brought up really
> caught my eye...any confirmation or elaboration ? I've read that
> starforce permanently screws up ones cd/dvd reader and that was the
> main objection to starforce
>

hehe.....Good one........ I am a beta tester with Vista and Starforce will
not even install on it. It is immediately disabled and you forever get this
warning that a driver has been disabled. This was with GTL and GTR. GTR2
installs and runs fine.... Just some info you might be interested in.

Ed

Ed Medlin wrote:
>
>
> hehe.....Good one........ I am a beta tester with Vista and Starforce will
> not even install on it. It is immediately disabled and you forever get this
> warning that a driver has been disabled. This was with GTL and GTR. GTR2
> installs and runs fine.... Just some info you might be interested in.
>
> Ed

useful to know- thank you

If you upgrade from XP to Vista, the driver is NOT disabled like you
describe AFAIK, least I never get any warnging when I drive the game... (I
am speaking of GTL).


Ed Medlin enlightened us with:
> > wrote in message
> ups.com...
>> "What you likely didn't know was the licensed Starforce code buried
>> deep
>> within Vista/DX10
>> Mitch "
>>
>> Just rereading a few posts and this point Mitch brought up really
>> caught my eye...any confirmation or elaboration ? I've read that
>> starforce permanently screws up ones cd/dvd reader and that was the
>> main objection to starforce
>>
>
> hehe.....Good one........ I am a beta tester with Vista and Starforce
> will not even install on it. It is immediately disabled and you
> forever get this warning that a driver has been disabled. This was
> with GTL and GTR. GTR2 installs and runs fine.... Just some info you
> might be interested in.
> Ed

Of course NO ONE is actually going to do a dirty install upgrade from XP to
Vista. Right?

Right?

-Larry

"Plowboy" > wrote in message
...
> If you upgrade from XP to Vista, the driver is NOT disabled like you
> describe AFAIK, least I never get any warnging when I drive the game...
> (I am speaking of GTL).
>
>
> Ed Medlin enlightened us with:
>> > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>>> "What you likely didn't know was the licensed Starforce code buried
>>> deep
>>> within Vista/DX10
>>> Mitch "
>>>
>>> Just rereading a few posts and this point Mitch brought up really
>>> caught my eye...any confirmation or elaboration ? I've read that
>>> starforce permanently screws up ones cd/dvd reader and that was the
>>> main objection to starforce
>>>
>>
>> hehe.....Good one........ I am a beta tester with Vista and Starforce
>> will not even install on it. It is immediately disabled and you
>> forever get this warning that a driver has been disabled. This was
>> with GTL and GTR. GTR2 installs and runs fine.... Just some info you
>> might be interested in.
>> Ed
>
>

"Plowboy" > wrote in message
...
> If you upgrade from XP to Vista, the driver is NOT disabled like you
> describe AFAIK, least I never get any warnging when I drive the game...
> (I am speaking of GTL).
>
Are you using the latest RC of Vista? Really won't matter after the second
beta. Starforce drivers are disabled at startup of Vista and GTL and GTR
will not run ................ won't even install correctly. GTR2 is fine.
During the first beta release I tested, Starforce drivers would install and
I could run GTR (GTL had not been released in the US yet) fine. When MS
added all the increased protection in Beta 2 of Vista, this changed. That
all is really moot since most game developers are going away from the
Starforce protection and moving to DVDs and implementing differnent copy
protection schemes. Vista RC2 is a completely different animal that the
Betas and RC1. I can install and run GTR2 just fine..........Not so with GTR
and GTL. As soon as Vista starts I get a warning that the Starforce driver
will not be allowed to run and is disabled. It may be just my
configuration..........but I doubt it.

Ed

Ed Medlin wrote:

> Are you using the latest RC of Vista? Really won't matter after the second
> beta. Starforce drivers are disabled at startup of Vista and GTL and GTR
> will not run

There's a patch that fixes that. Of course, it also means that you'll
have Starforce running.