zorlac Posted June 4, 2006 Posted June 4, 2006 Hi all Just upgraded my PC to a dual core AMD, and it all started to go horribly wrong :( Installed LO v1.0 - no problems, ran fine Installed FC from CD (original, not LO Gold) - no problems, ran fine Installed FC v1.12a CD patch - SF hangs whilst reading CD. And I do mean really hangs... couldnt kill protect.exe or lockon.exe from task manager :( mmm... so, i uninstalled, deleted the dir, and tried again: Installed LO v1.0 - no problems, ran fine Installed FC from CD (original, not LO Gold) - no problems, ran fine Installed FC v1.11 CD patch - no problems, ran fine Installed FC v1.12a CD patch - SF hangs whilst reading CD. oh dear :( Here we go, SF coming to bite me in the a$$. Forced the mobo to run with a single core, and FC + v1.12a patch runs fine. Enable the second core and it hangs whilst SF reads the disk. I noticed that my friend (who has Lockon Gold plus the v1.12a patch for it) had a newer version of the StarForce protect.exe/protect.dll in his Lockon dir, so copied them over (making backups of original), but that didnt work. Removed it all and started again. I tried a standalone install of the Gold patch, and in dual core mode, the StarForce part of the startup worked great, but then it died a death when it tried to load Lockon (i expected this, as I didnt actually have the original LO:G installed at this time.. but SF did work!). Removed it all and started again. I installed my friend's Lockon Gold, plus the v1.12a patch (with the newer SF version) and it worked fine in dual core mode. The last thing I have tried is starting it in dual core mode without the CD in the drive. As the latest patch will only request the CD once a week (if its not present), it doesnt get upset, and FC v1.12a runs fine. I guess once a week (or sooner), i`ll drop to single-core, run FC v1.12a, let SF see/read the CD, then stop, remove the CD and go back to dual-core again.... not ideal I know, but it works.
modPlod Posted June 4, 2006 Posted June 4, 2006 I dont realy think its a problem with having a duel care, even though many people with duels are having this problem, I have a simler issue with the game and I`m running an AMD 64 +4000 single core chip. I have reinstalled the game a number of times and tried evert solution I can find. StarForce if a flawed system. I can start the game every time without the disk. When SF askes for the disk I give it, it crashes. I eject the disk, press and hold shift dubble click the desktop icon, and the game starts(every time). I don think its meant to happen this way but it does. I wish I could get the thing to run correctly, but I gues I`ll have to make do with this, I hope the next addon improves on StarShite.
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