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• I've recently been struggling with a number of racing sims I bought to use after work hours in our new racing cockpit. I'm a big believer in supporting developers. I'm a developer myself. But digging around for CDs or DVDs is impractical for dedicated gaming rigs, so I install no-cd patches when I can.Unfortunately, finding no-cd patches is getting harder and harder because of a relatively new copy protection known as StarForce. It's a kernel-mode device driver that talks directly to the IDE hardware to validate the CD or DVD. Beyond that, the technical details are sketchy, probably to prevent crackers from gaining the upper hand. But the net result is that no-cd patches for games with the latest StarForce protection are rare.For example, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, which was released early last year, has no known working no-cd patch as of today-- almost a year later. That's amazing. There are legions of hackers and crackers out there. Fending them off for this long is completely unprecedented. For as long as there has been software, there have been crackers-- and they've always won.My hat is off to the developers of StarForce. However you feel about copy protection, they've accomplished what many thought could never be done. Now, before you spam the comments with diatribes about how much StarForce sucks, how it kills small children and formats your hard drive, etcetera, take the time to read their point of view in this interview with a StarForce rep. It has their side of the story, and many additional details. I'll also add that I played, completed, and sold Splinter Cell Chaos Theory earlier this year without once knowing that I was playing a StarForce protected game.Now, this is not to say that StarForce can't be circumvented. It can. The primary method of circumventing StarForce at the moment is to stop using parallel ATA optical drives:physically unplug your optical drives*use a special utility to completely disable parallel ATA on your PC (that's assuming you're using serial ATA hard drives)switch to external USB optical drives

• It's kind of a scorched earth solution, but it's the only thing that works. And once you've done that, you're still not done! The very, very latest versions of StarForce monitor hard drive access at the time of disc validation to see if that "DVD" you mounted is really being read from the hard drive. So you have to load an additional device driver that hides the physical drive access from StarForce.All in all, a giant pain in the ass. Which is entirely the point of copy protection.But is StarForce too much copy protection? Chris Anderson maintains that there is an optimal level of piracy for any industry, due to the following effects:Remember dongles? Any protection technology that is really difficult to crack is probably too cumbersome to be accepted by consumers.Piracy can let you raise your prices. Rather than pricing between the absolute economic bottom and the top, you cede the bottom to piracy-- no price can compete with free-- and set your price between the middle and the top.Piracy helps seed technology markets. The ubiquity of pirated Windows and Office have made them de-facto national standards in many countries.

Chris proposes that a certain level of piracy is simply good business:When all these effects are considered, it appears that there actually is an optimal level of piracy. That right level would vary from industry to industry. Today the estimated piracy rates are 33% for CDs and 15% for DVDs. The industries say that's too high, but most anti-copying technologies they've brought in to lower that figure have proven unpopular. Would even tighter lock-downs help? Probably not. Maybe 15%-30% is simply the market saying that this is the optimal rate of piracy for those industries, and any effort to lower that significantly would either choke demand or push even more people to the dark side.I tend to agree. I think DVDs are an excellent example of this "good enough" theory in action. They have a basic level of copy protection, but they're priced so reasonably very few people bother to pirate them. The people that continue to pirate DVDs probably wouldn't buy them no matter how low they were priced.* no, disabling them in the BIOS doesn't work. StarForce talks directly to the ATA hardware at the kernel level.

The way around this is to find a version of the game with the copy protection removed. Sadly, due to copyright law we cannot link to files like this. We can tell you however, that the cracked executable we used was from the hacking group MYTH and the supplied executable file (Game.exe) had the MD5 file hash of 480265ACC58FE4ECC53362C18AB47104.

No Cd Crack Fr Reason 4

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When using dgVoodoo2, you can use some in-game overlay tools such as Nvidia Geforce Experience. For some reason we could not get the Evolve in-game overlay to work with the game and trying the Steam overlay caused the game to freeze.

Q. Can channels from LTS based systems connect with CD based systems?A. Yes, All MQ queue managers interoperate with queue managers running at a different version, whether they're using an LTS or CD release.Q. On z/OS, can LTS and CD based systems access the same shared queues?A. Generally yes. From time to time we might introduce new function in an LTS or CD release which has specific restrictions.Q. Can a MQ cluster contain both LTS and CD queue managers?A. Yes, queue managers of different levels can interoperate in an MQ cluster. However, it might not be possible to use newer cluster capabilities only available in the version of some of the queue managers.Q. Can an MQ cluster's full repository queue managers be from an LTS release and other queue managers at new CD releases?A. Yes. However, if the CD queue managers intend to exploit new clustering capabilities, the full repository queue managers might also need to be upgraded. This will be a documented requirement of the feature.Q. What features do you see in a CD release?A. New features are delivered in each CD release. By the nature of the regular delivery, large features might be delivered across multiple CD releases, increasing the extent of the feature each time.Q. Will new features be exactly the same from one CD release to another?A. Potentially not. CD releases provide new capabilities as rapidly as possible, which might mean that a feature delivered in one CD release is improved in a subsequent CD release, based on further development or user feedback. This might change the external administration and behavior of a new feature. For this reason, some migration work might be required when new CD features are enabled.Q. How do I identify if a feature is liable to change under subsequent CD releases?A. The documentation of the feature indicates if this feature is currently only available through CD releases and therefore liable to change.Q. Can I prevent new CD features being available on a queue manager?A. No. All new CD features are enabled on a queue manager. Depending on the nature of the new feature it might be possible to disable it through configuration or just not use the feature, but new features are enabled and available for use by default.Q. How does the command level (CMDLEVEL) of a queue manager change with a CD or LTS release?A. The CMDLEVEL is automatically set to a command level that matches the installed CD or LTS release. The user cannot reduce or hold back the command level. The command level does not change between fix packs of an LTS release, for example between 9.0.0.0 and 9.0.0.4.

Then there's the changing pattern of hardware. An ever-declining piece of hardware in portable computers (notebooks, ultrabooks, etc.) is the optical (CD/DVD) drive. Moving parts mean extra weight and battery drain, so it makes sense. However, it means that to install a game from disc, you'll need an external optical reader. You don't want to carry this around with you either, which means a no-CD crack is required for on-the-go gaming.

It usually involves first installing the game, them looking for a registry entry, DLL (domain-link library), executable crack file, or a replacement EXE for the original game, or a combination of any of these. The new files are then added to the game directory on the hard disk drive (if any are duplicating existing files, these should be backed up) in order to make the game run without the disc.

Once upon a time, finding No-CD cracks was a dangerous pastime. Online resources were full of NSFW ads, popups and malware risks. Fortunately, things have been tidied up somewhat as trends have developed. While there is scant use for no-CD cracks on modern games, some sites still offer them for older games.

Patches, fixes, trainers (offering unlimited health/ammo/etc) and No-CD/No-DVD cracks are available here, although the focus has shifted in recent years to trainers. A useful search tool on the right, however, will let you browse the site for older games available on optical disc, and any associated No-CD patches and EXEs.

Unless you're picking up the game CD/DVD from a bargain bucket, or they're limited edition boxes (as described above) then really is no reason to waste time with physical media in this day and age. The overwhelming majority of video games are available as digital downloads, mostly via Steam (although alternatives are available). Better still, Steam enables you to add CD keys from many older games into your Steam library, thereby running the title without the disc.

What do you think? Is this a good development, or does it strip games of their cultural importance when physical art cannot be admired as part of the experience? Do you use No-CD cracks, or have you abandoned them for Steam and other solutions? Tell us in the comments. 2ff7e9595c