rec.autos.simulators

> My PC is a DELL P4 3.00 GHz with 2 GB RAM. Video card is ATI Radeon 9800 128
> MB RAM with latest drivers.
> Will an Nvidia card such as the Asus N8600GTS Silent (256 MB 8600 GTS) make
> an appreciable difference in my ability to dial up the graphics level?

> Maybe I'm running a different version of starforce to everyone
> else, but I've not had DVD drives self-destruct and Daemon Tools
> works perfectly fine for me.

> There have been times that starforce has taken at least a minute
> to validate a disk, particularly GTL, but that's as painful as
> it's gotten for me at least.

> Cheers,
> Rod.

>There are a few different versions of Starforce so that may be why.
>Perhaps it was only the early versions that were problematic. Even other
>forms of copy protection have messed up Daemon Tools. I bought a game
>recently that says right on the box that you may need to uninstall
>Daemon Tools and it may not work with certain optical drives. If it says
>that right on the box then obviously there are issues with CP. You think
>it is right for the game publisher to think they have the right to force
>someone to buy a new optical drive to run their game? There are lots of
>posts out there showing Starforce has messed up Daemon Tools in the past.

>Yea, you just need a faster video card. If you can run Race07 you can
>easily run GTR2. I have GTR and GTR2 and I don't think GTR2 has any more
>hardware requirements than GTR2. But then I can't compare because I
>refuse to install optical drive version of Starforce.

> Oh, absolutely not. I'd much prefer that all my software was not
> copy protected. I'm not defending Starforce at all, just giving
> my experience of it on 3 different machines, 2 of them running
> Daemon Tools.

> Cheers,
> Rod.

>> Oh, absolutely not. I'd much prefer that all my software was not
>> copy protected. I'm not defending Starforce at all, just giving
>> my experience of it on 3 different machines, 2 of them running
>> Daemon Tools.

>> Cheers,
>> Rod.

>OK. I have 4 PC's here and do have Starforce on two of them. I'm not
>happy with that but I paid for the games and am going to play them, dammit.

> also handy that GTR2 has a no-cd for offline play.

>> also handy that GTR2 has a no-cd for offline play.

>No-Cd patch also works fine for  online play AFAIK.

> Oh cool. Never really tried because all the other games I have
> (even though you have a valid copy with valid key) still
> don't like it. Sweet. :)

> Cheers,
> Rod.