X3 - Reunion (help needed)

[Diranar]

This game was sold very buged (BETA in my oppinion),
There's a 1.3 Patch out that makes the game run smoother,
if you have less than 1 Gigabyte of Ram, you should upgrade it, cause this game never runs Smooth with 512 MB(I have tried that and it wasn't funny at all...upgraded at christmas )

[Xerxis]

@Tyler

Could you maybe tell me what exactly you did to get the game to run (in your own words)? That would be great. I still couldn't get this game to work.

[Diranar]

How i play my Starforce Games without CD/DVD in drive:

I first make a Copy of my Original with Alcohol (V1.95.3105) at low (4x)
DPM Read Speed. I Disable Alcohol's Virtual Drives.
(Then i use the "AdvancedMDSEditor" and check if the RMPS Data is right, you don't need to do this step)

!! Then i shut down my Computer, open it, pull the ide cable out of my DVD-
!! Burner and my IDE DVD-Rom, close it and start it again.

I mount the Image of the Starforce-Game with Daemon Tools V4 and
install the Game from the Virtual-Daemon-Drive.

Now i restart the PC (Starforce wants to)...and back again in windows i
mount the image again in Daemon V4

Then i click on the Desktop Icon and Play it...

That is all, no tricks at all. Pure Cable Pulling Power !!!

Happy new year..

[Xerxis]

Weird...I did it the exact same way, except that I didn't unplug the drives, but I used sd4hide-skl and nightmare to make the drives invisible. Didn't work...oh well.

[Diranar]

Good that you have found the error :

The Game ONLY runs if you have physically unplugged your Drives.
You can't make the drives invisible for Starforce 3.6
NO Blacklist Tools will help, SFNightmare only works until STarforce 3.5

IDE CD/DVD Have to go to make a Backup work with Starforce 3.6, the only CD/DVD Drive that could be connected would be a USB2 or Firewire Drive.

[neptun]

Originally Posted by Diranar

Good that you have found the error :

The Game ONLY runs if you have physically unplugged your Drives.
You can't make the drives invisible for Starforce 3.6
NO Blacklist Tools will help, SFNightmare only works until STarforce 3.5

IDE CD/DVD Have to go to make a Backup work with Starforce 3.6, the only CD/DVD Drive that could be connected would be a USB2 or Firewire Drive.

For me personally POP T2T and X3 Reunion ( Starfoce 3.5 & 3.6 ) can be played using full image of the original DVD mounted in daemon tools 4 if i disable my IDE controller through device manager.Of course my HDD is not IDE but SATA.

[Diranar]

Let me guess, your Motherboard has a Nforce 3 or 4 Chip?