Install probs.

[CybaGirl]

Originally Posted by Laffertytig

normally when i install SH3 it does the starforce protection thingy but it doesnt do that anymore. in device manager under cdrom tab it says current 1 which is USA and im in region 2 which is UK. would this affect it? it doesnt allow me to change it though.

ive been on cd-rom drivers.com and looked under lite-on company drivers but mine doesnt seem tho be there. there is one listed as "all driver" but it seems to be a program and not a driver.

help

First of all LiteOn dont make very good DVD burners I am sorry to say. They make excellent CD burners and they are also good at reading discs. But they dont burn DVD's that well.

Where did you buy SH3 from? Is your version the US version or the European version? I live in Australia myself and I brought the US version from the USA. As I didnt want the European version of the game.

I think your problem is associated with the region settings and your drive is now locked at 1 which is USA and cannot be changed via windows settings or applications anymore .

There is software tools like AnyDVD in which you can change the region of the drive all the time. In fact I use this program myself and I have never used any region codes up in my hardware at all. So its still set to factory standards as not being set. As AnyDVD takes care of this for me . In fact AnyDVD is reporting back to me that my drive is set to region 1 as I have SH3 sitting in it right at this moment. But as soon as I take the disk out. It says that there is no region set to my drive .

From memory I think you can also get Liteon software that will allow you to change settings of the drive which also includes the ability to change regions.

Also if your drive uses a media tek chipset you can reflash the drive and then you will get back the ability to change the drives region settings again. But there is only certain brands, drives and model numbers in which you can do this. Honestly it is probably much easier for you to get AnyDVD. Especially if you dont know much about computers and flashing hardware etc.

Always bare in mind for now and the future of any computer DVD drives that you buy. If you change the DVD region settings via the actual drive itself you will only be allowed to do this five times then the drive becomes locked to that region . You can thank Sony for this BS!

Unless of course you use software like AnyDVD to change it for you automatically. That is why I always use AnyDVD. As I never change anything via the hardware and it always remains the same as when I first brought it.

You can get a trial of AnyDVD from the following link:

http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

Give it a try as I am 99.9% sure it will solve your problems .

[Laffertytig]

but the thing is this drive has been fine up until now when i did a reinstall so why should this region stuff be an issue now?

and to cybargirl why do u think i have a "BENQ drive 1650" drive whe it doesnt match the drive i listed?

i cant install any software apart from 1 game which is footbal manager 2006 at present so im praying someonw has a solution for me