SO, GTL? Starforce cause hard reboots?

Tony,
tell me more what is it, howd you get rid of it/disable it?


Tony Rickard enlightened us with:
> Tanstaafl wrote:
>> Same here. Installed and uninstalled twice, including Starforce,and
>> it reboots as soon as I try to launch. Also varied settings in
>> graphics config. GTR still works fine.
>
> Avast was causing the problem for me. Disabling it worked straight
> away. Never had the same problem with GTR though.
>
> Tony

Is there any help or support site anywhere (I know itis a demo...) with
others overcoming this? dang
Sting32 enlightened us with:
> Yes I have tried this treasure, it doesn't crash to desktop, it does
> not whine about any of my apps (I did shut down Daemon toolz), long
> ago removed cdspace. Yet we simply crash hell hard to BIOS screen
> with a 'device driver but we're not sure which one or why" from XP
> Pro's error reporting tool
> Last driver for gfx (geforce6600gt) that I installed was the ones
> that came with Battle Field 2 demo, is that what the problem might
> be? or is the Star-farce? seems a pity that they couldn't just tell
> me it didn't want to install or run if my app offended so much, I
> did install GTR demo, it ran fine.
>
> Ill try gfx update, hope I can play other games after this, the new
> drivers liked to kill NR03 IMHO from 96 fps to 40 at same settings...

Plowboy wrote:

>>Avast was causing the problem for me. Disabling it worked straight
>>away. Never had the same problem with GTR though.

> Tony,
> tell me more what is it, howd you get rid of it/disable it?

Avast Anti Virus. Disabled by right clicking on the Avast icon in the
system tray and selecting stop on-access protection.

Damn, <g> thought it was something in the game or ???


Tony Rickard enlightened us with:
> Plowboy wrote:
>
>>> Avast was causing the problem for me. Disabling it worked straight
>>> away. Never had the same problem with GTR though.
>
>> Tony,
>> tell me more what is it, howd you get rid of it/disable it?
>
> Avast Anti Virus. Disabled by right clicking on the Avast icon in the
> system tray and selecting stop on-access protection.

Not exactly helping you but anyway - running 6600GT (ASUS SLI) with 7.1.8.4
driver. GTL demo w/o probs, GTR also still OK. XP Pro SP2, no other funnies
installed (Daemon, etc.)

Ðeon

Plowboy wrote:
> Is there any help or support site anywhere (I know itis a demo...)
> with others overcoming this? dang
> Sting32 enlightened us with:
>> Yes I have tried this treasure, it doesn't crash to desktop, it does
>> not whine about any of my apps (I did shut down Daemon toolz), long
>> ago removed cdspace. Yet we simply crash hell hard to BIOS screen
>> with a 'device driver but we're not sure which one or why" from XP
>> Pro's error reporting tool
>> Last driver for gfx (geforce6600gt) that I installed was the ones
>> that came with Battle Field 2 demo, is that what the problem might
>> be? or is the Star-farce? seems a pity that they couldn't just tell
>> me it didn't want to install or run if my app offended so much, I
>> did install GTR demo, it ran fine.
>>
>> Ill try gfx update, hope I can play other games after this, the new
>> drivers liked to kill NR03 IMHO from 96 fps to 40 at same settings...

"Alan Bernardo" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Tanstaafl" > wrote in message
> . ..
>> Same here. Installed and uninstalled twice, including Starforce,and it
>> reboots as soon as I try to launch. Also varied settings in graphics
>> config. GTR still works fine.
>>
>
> There is a program that completely uninstalls starforce drivers, if that's
> what you have to end up doing. I'm not sure what that will do to GTR. My
> guess is you'll have to reinsert the disk and it will reinstall the
> drivers.
>
> You might try that. Where this utility is, I don't know. But I know it
> exists.
>
> Whatever the case, your system's video drivers probably need to be flushed
> out, also. There are tools that get rid of all vestiges of old drivers.
>
> Those are the first two things I would do, if you want to run the demo.
>
>
> Alanb

Yes I used Starforce cleaner when uninstalling the demo. Didn't help.

Mines an xfx AGP version... I have just about had it, with the damn thing,
wish I never got rid of the 4600... but it does look a little better in
some stuff...
Ðeon enlightened us with:
> Not exactly helping you but anyway - running 6600GT (ASUS SLI) with
> 7.1.8.4 driver. GTL demo w/o probs, GTR also still OK. XP Pro SP2,
> no other funnies installed (Daemon, etc.)
>
> Ðeon
>
> Plowboy wrote:
>> Is there any help or support site anywhere (I know itis a demo...)
>> with others overcoming this? dang
>> Sting32 enlightened us with:
>>> Yes I have tried this treasure, it doesn't crash to desktop, it does
>>> not whine about any of my apps (I did shut down Daemon toolz), long
>>> ago removed cdspace. Yet we simply crash hell hard to BIOS screen
>>> with a 'device driver but we're not sure which one or why" from XP
>>> Pro's error reporting tool
>>> Last driver for gfx (geforce6600gt) that I installed was the ones
>>> that came with Battle Field 2 demo, is that what the problem might
>>> be? or is the Star-farce? seems a pity that they couldn't just
>>> tell me it didn't want to install or run if my app offended so
>>> much, I did install GTR demo, it ran fine.
>>>
>>> Ill try gfx update, hope I can play other games after this, the new
>>> drivers liked to kill NR03 IMHO from 96 fps to 40 at same
>>> settings...

I am running an Athlon 64 with a nForce4 m/b, an Ati x850xt pci-e and an
NEC DVD-+RW. I own 4 Starforce games and haven't noticed the slightest
issue with any of them. My old AthlonXP 3200+ and GF4 Ti4600 doesn't have
any problems either. I have had Daemon Tools and Alcohol 120% (several
versions) installed and neither have caused any problems either.

Is there any hardware in particular that doesn't like Starforce? Is it
mainly to do with the brand of dvd-rom?

It did a hard reboot on me once but I reduced from 1280x1024 to
1024x768 and no problems at all since.

Sting32 wrote:
> Yes I have tried this treasure, it doesn't crash to desktop, it does not
> whine about any of my apps (I did shut down Daemon toolz), long ago removed
> cdspace. Yet we simply crash hell hard to BIOS screen with a 'device driver
> but we're not sure which one or why" from XP Pro's error reporting tool
>
> Last driver for gfx (geforce6600gt) that I installed was the ones that came
> with Battle Field 2 demo, is that what the problem might be? or is the
> Star-farce? seems a pity that they couldn't just tell me it didn't want to
> install or run if my app offended so much, I did install GTR demo, it ran
> fine.
>
> Ill try gfx update, hope I can play other games after this, the new drivers
> liked to kill NR03 IMHO from 96 fps to 40 at same settings...
>
Reboots on start of game,shut down avast and it worked,however no brake
with TSW wheel so after all the hassles I deleted the demo.