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One of the leading brands, StarForce, is notorious for not only making it difficult for a small percentage of legitimate users to load up StarForce-protected games, but also for leaving potentially problem-causing StarForce software behind on your PC, even after you've deleted the game it was protecting. I'm okay with that in theory, but some of these anti-piracy software programs are so potent that they cause issues for legitimate game buyers. Here's what Greg Vederman, PC Gamer editor-in-chief, experienced: Until it reaches the latter stages most people do not even realise it is happening. The burn speeds will get slower and slower (no matter what speed you select to burn at). A sure sign of this step down occurring is that In physical hardware failure (Most commonly in multiformat CD/DVD writer drives). In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results Mode rendering a CD/DVD writer virtually unusable.

Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility Writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Here's a video of a user experiencing a reboot while X3's Starforce is doing its CD check:įor example, here's one of the common problems brought by Starforce: under Windows XP, if packets are lost during the reading or If these problems occur, the end-user would be unware as to the cause of the problem,Īnd would be helpless to solve the problem. To system instability and computer crashes. Starforce has received criticism for installing its own device driver onto computers. It installs as a hidden device driver, without the end-user's knowledge or consent. Starforce is a software copy protection tool installed by PC game publishers, which is designed to prevent the casual copying This site tries to continue the work of R.I.P. If you wish to join this boycott, we encourage you to write the publisher, or post on their forum, and let them know. I will provide a list of games that install the Starforce device drivers, as well as a list of publishers that incorporate Starforce. This site is here to provide information about the Starforce protection method, so that you can make your own informed decision. Nadeo, Egosoft, do you read us ?Ī lot of PC gamers have joined together, and decided not to purchase any PC games that use the Starforce copy protection method. Of great games are still protected with Starforce. A big thanks toĪll the people who spread the word on Internet for some years ! But don't stop the fight yet, Starforce is alive and a lot Ubisoft was the largest producer of Starforce restricted games, and it's a huge step toward the end user. Software used with any future Ubisoft games won't be Starforce, starting with Heroes of Might and Magic V. Boycott Starforce NEWS: Ubisoft won't use Starforce anymore !Ĭonfirmed: Ubisoft decided that the anti-copy