Starforce and Chaos Theory

Hello, I have a question about how Starforce works. I have a legal copy of Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory. I installed it on my computer, and have been playing it. I also want to install it on my girlfriend's computer so I can play it when I am over at her house, but her computer will not take the install. I know that the protection scheme makes it virtually impossible to crack the disks, but is there something in it that prevents the protected disk from being installed on more than one computer?

Thanks

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by eli2k

Yes, what's preventing it from being installed, exactly? System requirements?

THe computer meets the requirements - the program does install but then will not accept the serial - it says it is invalid.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by eli2k

Does it do a check by connecting to some server during installation? Otherwise it wouldn't make sense to not accept the serial if that's the one you got when you purchased it.

THat is what I thought was the problem - the game does not specify an internet connection in the requirments, and my firewall is good at alerting me when new programs try to access the internet. Still I thought maybe they made a sneaky entry to an online db that associated the my mdac with the game serial, or something. But in all my reading about Starforce (and there isn't much out there), the security scheme it implements seems to revolve around the properties of the actual manufacturing of the disk.

THe one weird thing I learned, and this might help you Snowknight, when you install a game that uses Starforce, a device driver is installed on your computer and does not uninstall when you remove the game. You need to get a special tool to remove it. Maybe removing that device would obivate the need to reformat.

I am perplexed. If I have any breakthroughs I will post them.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.