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Hooston · 10-12-23, 04:03 PM

Starforce was a particularly nasty form of copy protection from Russia (of course!) that permanently installed a driver on your PC. A modern version of windows (I think windows 10 onwards) will do its utmost to stop starforce doing this. The starforce removal tool got rid of this nasty thing from your drive but would not help you run protected games.
To run SH3 from the original disk you need to get the "SH3 no disk patch", which can be found with a bit of googling. Maybe some nice person on the forum will send it to you. However my advice would be to shell out a small amount of money and buy the thing again on Steam where Starforce is long gone. Alternatively download the Onealex mod as this includes unprotected and much patched versions of the affected executables.

10-12-23, 04:03 PM	#4
Hooston 中国水兵 Join Date: Jun 2020 Posts: 277 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	'tis evil I tell thee Starforce was a particularly nasty form of copy protection from Russia (of course!) that permanently installed a driver on your PC. A modern version of windows (I think windows 10 onwards) will do its utmost to stop starforce doing this. The starforce removal tool got rid of this nasty thing from your drive but would not help you run protected games. To run SH3 from the original disk you need to get the "SH3 no disk patch", which can be found with a bit of googling. Maybe some nice person on the forum will send it to you. However my advice would be to shell out a small amount of money and buy the thing again on Steam where Starforce is long gone. Alternatively download the Onealex mod as this includes unprotected and much patched versions of the affected executables.