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So last night I picked up Space Rangers 2, a PC game that has a lot of excellent reviews.  Unfortunately, upon installing it, I found out that not only does it have Starforce protection on it, but that Starforce keeps the game from actually RUNNING on my system.

Does anyone know how I can get this thing to work?  I don't pirate software, but I can't think of any other way to get this to work other than a No-CD crack (which I can't find anyway, since apparently the European no CD crack doesn't work on the North American version..)

I think regularly applied oinment can lessen the severity of the outbreaks.

Is it on CD instead of DVD? Do you have an old CD-ROM (not CD-R or CD-RW) drive lying around? Are you unafraid of the guts of your computer? If yes to all of the above, slap the old CD-ROM drive into your box; I keep one of these in all of my machines since almost no copy-protection mechanism will object to a plain old CD-ROM from 1997.

DVD games, now they're really bitchy when it comes to copy protection, I find. Those usually require a No-CD and a really angry letter to the publisher (printed and mailed, not e-mail).

Ewwwwww, you got the herpes.

I got the herpes and ended up formatting and re-installing. You can never be too sure.

As for how to uhm, bypass it, without directly linking to a site that may not be, strictly speaking, legal in many parts of the world, you might want to try cdcopyworld or gamecopyworld  dot com...

Sweet, now we can safely make-out.

Thanks for the help.  I've uninstalled and removed starforce, but I'm just amazed that a company would ship with that piece of crap "copy protection".

I'm amazed that forums offer SEARCH FUNCTIONS when nobody ever uses them.

Bah!  Search is for people who care.