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Thoran · 01-31-2006, 06:23 PM

Fortuitous timing... it just so happens I accidentally bought one of those games last weekend (Brothers in Arm - Earned in Blood) and didn't notice the warning. I didn't want to return the game, so I looked around on the internet for something to disable starware.

First place I checked had a hack out for that crapware, which allowed me to uninstall it and still play BIA just fine (single player). I assume since it's been hacked for one game, you can probably find hacks for others. The problem of course is you have to install the game FIRST... then hack it... then remove the starware driver and files.

I wouldn't install it on a system using a raid array (scsi or otherwise)... I've read of array corruption issues caused by their driver, and I expect that hacking the exe to remove the copy protection will probably be a problem if you're into online gaming (I'm not)... however it works just fine for lan gaming.

[ 01-31-2006, 06:24 PM: Message edited by: Thoran ]

01-31-2006, 06:23 PM	#8
Thoran Galvatron Join Date: January 10, 2002 Location: Upstate NY Age: 57 Posts: 2,109	Fortuitous timing... it just so happens I accidentally bought one of those games last weekend (Brothers in Arm - Earned in Blood) and didn't notice the warning. I didn't want to return the game, so I looked around on the internet for something to disable starware. First place I checked had a hack out for that crapware, which allowed me to uninstall it and still play BIA just fine (single player). I assume since it's been hacked for one game, you can probably find hacks for others. The problem of course is you have to install the game FIRST... then hack it... then remove the starware driver and files. I wouldn't install it on a system using a raid array (scsi or otherwise)... I've read of array corruption issues caused by their driver, and I expect that hacking the exe to remove the copy protection will probably be a problem if you're into online gaming (I'm not)... however it works just fine for lan gaming. [ 01-31-2006, 06:24 PM: Message edited by: Thoran ]