StarForce error -6005

At the beginning of the year I mentioned some reservations regarding StarForce protected games. I'm facing a similar dilemma now but in a far worse way, it appears as though StarForce is so good that I can't play a legitimate copy at all.

I won't mention the name of the game just yet in case that isn't what's going on but I have a sneaking hunch. See, shortly after I wrote that blog entry I went through and cleaned up the StarForce drivers left behind from the Singles and CRC 2005. I happily played Black and White 2 with minimal disruption. Even better, my system has been a hell of a lot more stable and faster since then. I doubt very much that's a coincidence.

Now, I go to install a different game and lo' see what I find in my device manager:




I'm not impressed. The other two games at least gave me some sort of warning. This one, not a thing. The icing on the cake? The game isn't even installing properly. When I attempt to it gives me some generic error message and then falls over. I've been trying since Saturday with two different DVD drives to get it to go. Tech support are telling me I should run off and download it from some absurd file sharing place that wants me to sit in line for 44 fucking minutes.

I really hope it is a problem with my kit and not the game.