It's an old chestnut, but it's new to me...

[Quagmire1975]

OK, here's the scene. I bought SH3 when it first came out in '05.

The PC that I had back then died about 15 months ago due to hdd failure.

I bought a new PC shortly after, but I've only dusted off my copy of SH3 now with a view to playing the old sea dog again.

I installed the game, fine, patched it to v1.4, fine, but it won't let me play due to this whole starforce-vista confilct thingy.

I tried using the no-dvd fix (over-writing the 5 files in the install folder), now, the game get's as far as the title screen, the red bar goes the whole way across and then I get a crash to desktop.

I've also tried the starforce removal utility that you can download, but it says it can't find anything to remove.

So, it's now 2010, I presume people have been using SH3 on Vista machines for years now, but I'm lost.

I heard you can buy the game on budget now and that the starforce crap has been removed, is this true?

In the meantime, can somebody explain, in simple language, what I need to do to get back out into the atlantic in my u-boot?

I've looked at a few threads but they seem quite complicated, I'm as confused as ever.

I'd appreciate some nice, clean, simple help.

Thanx in advance.