How to play Silent Hunter III without the DVD in the DVD Drive
Later editions of Silent Hunter III come without a starforce installation, however those who bought the game in its early release life have starforce included in the game install and this does for many cause problems.
For this reason please find below guidance on removing the starforce installation from the game allowing you to avoid these issues and play without the DVD in the drive.
Uninstall Silent Hunter III - this uninstall will not delete starforce so you will need another program to complete removal. Starforce have an official removal tool which you can find HERE
Searching your windows task manager will not find any starforce programs, you will need to do a web search for archive rld-sh14.rar or search for Silent hunter 3 v1.4b No DVD/Fixed exe to get the archive.
In the archive you will find 5 data sets (SH3.EXE, MISSIONENGINE.DLL, SIMDATA.DLL, UTILS.DLL & STATEMACHINE.DLL)
Once the above is complete install SH III again, and take the DVD out of the DVD Drive
Do NOT play the game after installation
Now you will need to patch the game, patch 1.4. Ensure you install the correct patch i.e. EMEA-DVD, EMEA-DL, US-DVD, US-DL (see here)
Do NOT open the game after this process
Now copy the 5 data sets into the main menu of your Silent Hunter III installation.
That’s it; you can now play Silent Hunter III starforce free
Important note: This method will prevent you from running any other games which require starforce.
StarForce Drivers Removal. The famous protection solution developer, StarForce, has granted a sole right to distribute the StarForce Removal Tool utility to www.onlinesecurity-on.com. Thus, all users of licensed software protected by StarForce are welcome to freely download StarForce Removal Tool from www.onlinesecurity-on.com. Note though that.
Silent Hunter 3 Get the latest mods, maps, patches and tools for Silent Hunter 3, with GameFront's fast, free download servers. A word about Ubisoft's Starforce-crap: The first victim of UBI's user-rights-nonsense and DRM was and is the user himself. We have seen their 'support' on dealing with Starforce and the issues that came with it. Starforce is NOT compatible with Vista, nor with succeeding Windows-versions, and will not be. It must be removed. May 18, 2014 In order to install and play the game in the Win 7 OS environment the Starforce protection program needs to be removed with the downloaded Starforce. Removal tool; however, the first step is to remove the game from the computer. When the game installed it was installed into Programs (x86) as it is a 32 bit program.
Starforce Removal
im a middle age guy that frantically plays SH3 alot, i brought the dvd version when it first came out, without knowing it had 'That Starforce' Now SH3 is up to patch 1.4b and still no image to DL of GCW? Why? is SH3 to hard to crack? Ive read on other forums that Silent Hunter III is the first game of its kind that has the crackers chewing there finger nails. If this is gonna beat piracy fare enough, but unless i come across an image sooner or later my dvd is gonna be unreadable. Starforce through my experience can ruin/disable some readers. Theres alot of arguments going on at the sub forums www.subsim.com over the Starforce protection 98% hate it. Yes i know its created to stop piracy but it also ruins it for us honest gamers. Out of a poll on SH3 the question asked was 'Would you buy Silent Hunter 3 or the upcoming 4 if you know that starforce is on it. 96% of SH3 players including myself answered no.
Anyways is there an image for SH3 and also can anyone tell me why my image for BF2 now dont work since i updated BF2 to version 1.03, aren't images the same meaning they dont have to be updated for the latest versions. Thanks in advance.
Anyways is there an image for SH3 and also can anyone tell me why my image for BF2 now dont work since i updated BF2 to version 1.03, aren't images the same meaning they dont have to be updated for the latest versions. Thanks in advance.