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fguk · 20 March 2006 at 10:11AM

Hi

First post, hopefully this is the best place for it.

http://www.trackmanianations.com

Free car racing game, part of an international competition, but kept me amused for hours without going on line and competing.

Warning **256Mbyte download**

Played fine on my year old laptop.

[purplesignup][/purplesignup]

shif · 22 March 2006 at 9:26AM

tried downloading it and it kept bringing up an error message. anyone else had problems?

fguk · 22 March 2006 at 9:50AM

What was the error? Just tried the download again, seemed fine.

Sooler · 22 March 2006 at 11:08AM

Working OK, just downloaded it.

SamMoffatt28 · 22 March 2006 at 12:35PM

Thanks for this, Hubby is totally addicted to it now lol, now I can't get on my pc after 5-30 coz he's playing the game for hours!!! :rolleyes:

Nomee · 22 March 2006 at 12:41PM

Nice find... Downloading it now.

DuncanMiller · 22 March 2006 at 1:56PM

saw this link on here before and downloaded it. It is a good addicitive game!

grhm · 22 March 2006 at 5:35PM

Personally I won't get this game because I believe that it uses StarForce copy protection. It is alleged (through anacdotal evidence so far) that this protection system causes problems with CD/DVD writers. I'm not prepared to take the risk that my system will be corrupted.

More information can be found at:

http://www.glop.org/starforce/

http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=gaminggeneral&Number=5997772&page=&view=&sb=&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

http://www.sysinternals.com/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2527&PN=1&TPN=1

Sorry for the negative post - you are free to make up your own minds of course, but I thought a warning was in order.

[EDIT] If someone who has already loaded it could confirm if StarForce is included or not (instructions on how to check are on the glop.org site linked above) that would be great.

[EDIT2] Dave2608 (post #13) has checked and says no StarForce on the demo - Thanks Dave.

Zeitgeist · 22 March 2006 at 6:19PM

It bizzare that this game, which is only offered for free online, has any copy protection?

grhm · 22 March 2006 at 7:22PM

Yes, it doesn't seem logical does it.

Unfortunately it has been known with other software houses/distributors that use StarForce - Codemasters for one with their Honda racing demo.

I'm just being careful (not to say distrustful) of this game because the full version uses StarForce.

metallithrax · 22 March 2006 at 7:25PM

It does use starforce, you can read a bit more here: http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=32552

It could now be a security risk as well.

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