It includes instructions for the -old- Steam release as well. Here's said forum thread as retrieved from the Wayback Machine. If memory serves me well, there was an old forum entry at the defunct NoGrip Racing website depicting the MAJOR issues that such game release caused on computers running the most recent versions of Windows (including the aforementioned Fatal Error Code for starters) and how to get those issues sorted out. It was a pretty good game with some slightly flawed physics engine. ) on my current Windows 10 machine on Win XP SP3 compatibility without any problems, mods and everything. I've ran GT Legends (The EUR release from Atari that is The Viva Media US-NTSC version was plagued with the #StarFuss thingy IIRC. With snapshot capability on the OS image, the StarForce DRM drivers can't mess with the OS at all. The DRM does not seem to care about running on virtual machine. Use VM then 😉 I was able to run 2 StarForce infested game demos, GT Legends and Xpand Rally, on QEMU. (Please feel free to update it as needed This one was originally compiled back in Mid-2006) Now that you know the details of my adventure with StarF*^%, here's the aformentioned list as retrieved from the Wayback Machine:

Fortunately, i was able to issue a Driver Signature Bypass (F7 key IIRC) command thorough the Recovery Options Menu to make it boot into the desktop as intended and get rid of the culprit ASAP. It greeted me with an 0xc00000428 error code (Driver Signature Error), which almost forced me to fully reload the OS. Upon restarting my machine early this morning.

As expected, my search brought me to the following list of PC games and simulators that contained it in one way or another.Īfter downloading my copy of World Racing 2 from the My Abandonware site -with the update patches sourced from The Patches-Scrolls as usual-, Installed everything religiously and played eagerly thorough the first missions (that was a few days back, of course). After my most recent squabble with that infamous 'Digital Rights Management' system, Yours Trully decided to check if any other games for Windows were MALIGNED (Yup That pun was deliberately intended.) by that poor excuse of an 'anti-piracy system'.

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