Free PC Game 20 March 2006 at 10:11AM edited 2 February 2016 at 1:40PM in Freebies (no spend required) 20 replies 35.7K views

fguk

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.




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shif

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

fguk

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

Sooler

Working OK, just downloaded it.

SamMoffatt28

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

Nice find... Downloading it now.

DuncanMiller

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

grhm

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

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

grhm

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

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.