TrackMania Nations - Free Complete online game + Starforce!

UberNewb

Has anybody tried this game yet. It's free!!

I'm having a blast zooming around the tracks. I wasn't going to download it but decided to give it a shot and now I'm addicted!

http://www.trackmanianations.com/indexUk.php

Look out for Bastardo on the GB servers!

***WARNING: STARFORCE MALWARE INCLUDED***

eyerer

this is what downloading should be like....im getting over 100k/sec on the download \o/

anyway, hope this is good for a bit of online craic

KdjaCL

eyerer wrote:

this is what downloading should be like....im getting over 100k/sec on the download \o/

anyway, hope this is good for a bit of online craic

Its only possibly the best car game ever, seriously good.

kdjac

Beecher

Ive been addicted to this online for days! This is the best free game EVER! :v:

UberNewb

This dam game is keeping me up till all hours!! I keep saying one more track, just one more track... What your online names, I'm Bastardo

tman

sweet:)
i'll be on for a couple of matches tomorrow evening

eyerer

im gonna install it now

/loves sites that actually take advantage of all of his/her bandwidth

UberNewb

tman wrote:

sweet:)
i'll be on for a couple of matches tomorrow evening

I'm away at a piss up (wedding) tomorrow but leave a post here if anyone's on for a match on Saturday. My eye's are bleeding from this game! :v:

tman

ah yeah, i'd forgotten that tomorrow is friday (damn night shift!)
will definitely be on for a game on saturday though

KdjaCL

Btw lads this FREE game has Starforce in it.

Wonder if theres linux dedicated server for it, could bug Rev Hellfire to stick it on games iol then


kdjac

the_syco

KdjaC wrote:

Btw lads this FREE game has Starforce in it.

Wonder if theres linux dedicated server for it, could bug Rev Hellfire to stick it on games iol then


kdjac

Aye. For those who doubt it, check this out. Took this picture after I installed the demo:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/the_syco/starforce_in_the_tm_demo.jpg

=-=

Oh, and yes, yes it does. Click here for the link to the Linux server. Its only 7.77MB big

eyerer

oh ffs, i just installed it
now i've probably ****ed up my ability to play games on this thing

free indeed, its just a ploy

KdjaCL

eyerer wrote:

oh ffs, i just installed it
now i've probably ****ed up my ability to play games on this thing

free indeed, its just a ploy

You can play games, Star force does nothing damaging. Tbh you probably had it already. What it does is try to make it hard to play without the CD but Nocds are better than it ever will be.

Whats annoying is this is a free game why the fook does it need starforce. But there are loads of Demos that also have it.

thanks Syco

kdjac

the_syco

KdjaC wrote:

What it does is try to make it hard to play without the CD but Nocds are better than it ever will be.

Heh. If you think a no-cd works, think again. Not only will you have to physically disconnect your CD/DVD drives, but you'll have to load a few programs, BEFORE you can even try to run the game. For Trackmania, a NO-CD doesn't yet exist.

Oh, and I didn't already have it. I know, as I had to reinstall Windows minutes beforehand... on a totally unrelated issue. Nothing to do with Trackmaina what so ever :mad:

KdjaCL

the_syco wrote:

Heh. If you think a no-cd works, think again. Not only will you have to physically disconnect your CD/DVD drives, but you'll have to load a few programs, BEFORE you can even try to run the game. For Trackmania, a NO-CD doesn't yet exist.

Oh they do, there is no real evidence of people having issues with starforce, mainly its warez monkeys scared by it. I dont like it as it doesnt ask to be installed and doesnt come with an uninstaller. But i have it about 18 months now and never had an issue with it my dvd drives or my virtual drives. A game my kids play demands it to be there it has no effect on the pc whatsoever.

www.star-force.com has an uninstaller.


Pmed rev

kdjac

UberNewb

It will take alot more than starforce to stop me playing this game, its a drug!

Anyway while your playing this you won't have time for any other games! :v:

eyerer

i chose italy because its the closest there is to ireland :rolleyes:

/feels oppressed:(

UberNewb

I chose Spain. and I'm not doing to badly for them! :v:

eyerer

i get some error message, cant connect to ladder or something, so i dont partake in official races. which blows i guess.

im getting terrible framerates too, on lowest settings
i hate pc gaming

UberNewb

The ladders down at the mo, it should be up tomorrow. Strange? it flies along for me. I'm off for a a quick last go on one of the GBR servers now!

madrab

well starforce fooked my dvd drive (thank you king kong demo)

i have been too lazy to re-install windows so i now i have to run my dvd drive through my usb port

smokingman

This would have to be pretty special to stop me driving GTR and GTL - anyone driving it with pedals and a force feedback wheel? If so, any good?

Looks a bit too arcady to me but sure I'll give it a bash this weekend for the craic.

Stephen

Yeah, trackmania is by no means a racing simulator
Its 100% arcadey fun.

eyerer

edit: what is a UDP connection?
it said i've reverted to TCP which is supposedly inferior...then something about a firewall

/stabs the internet with a pointy poker

Stephen

UDP = user datagram protocol - a connectionless protocol. It should be faster for online gaming because it has less overheads than TCP, but if your connection is flakey it is unreliable.

You might need to open a port on your firewall/router.

KdjaCL

Server up on games4.iol

http://www.darkkeep.com/servers.php

Half Life is gone from it.

thanks rev


kdjac

eyerer

cheers stephen, i figured it would involve forwarding a port. like most things it seems

KdjaC wrote:

Server up on games4.iol

http://www.darkkeep.com/servers.php

Half Life is gone from it.

thanks rev


kdjac

how do i connect to this server?
dont see it listed on the ingame servers list and dont see a place to manually enter an address.

Lord Oz

I wish I read this post and known about the included starforce before I installed it. Now I feel so dirty.

the_syco

KdjaC wrote:

Oh they do, there is no real evidence of people having issues with starforce

I had to reinstall Windows XP 64bit.

madrab wrote:

well starforce fooked my dvd drive (thank you king kong demo)

What version Windows do you have?

Winters

KdjaC wrote:

www.star-force.com has an uninstaller.

I cant find it on the site

Link?

nm .. found it: http://onlinesecurity-on.com/downloads/sfdrvrem.zip

Q_Ball

bah getting 90k on a 3meg connection

whats the game like to play with a keyboard and mouse?

Smellyirishman

You only use the direction keys on your keyboard.... and the delete button every 10 seconds. No issues with the controls at all.

These games are absolutly fantastic, hopefully this free version will attract more deserved attention to thier other games.

Stephen

Excellent game - anyone figured out how to connect to Rev's server? I can't see any way to manually enter an ip address.

Rev Hellfire

The server appears in the list as Vroom vroom - www.iol.ie

Stephen

good stuff, i'll go have a look now

UberNewb

I'm can only see Tig's sever under IRI and its password protected I can't find Vroom vroom?

Rev Hellfire

The server is under BEL you'll find it there.

UberNewb

Excellent!

eyerer

finally won a game
also found the server, uncheck hide full servers if you cant find it

UberNewb

I got on the Vroom vroom severs and there's some quick drivers there! I was happy enough with just finishing in the top 10 but in the excitement I rebooted the PC (don't ask) and now I keep getting "Bad Proxy Configuration" when trying to play online?

Anyone have any ideas what this is?

Rev Hellfire

I'd say its at there end I'm getting it as well.

UberNewb

Cheers,

I thought that maybe the problem as the ladders are up and down like a tarts nickers! :v:

I'll just have to keep trying....

eyerer

UberNewb wrote:

in the excitement I rebooted the PC

lmao

i was also getting that proxy thing, i thought it was because of my router. but i've been on fine since

anyone else always see the message 'you are not in official mode'?
i always get that near the chat window, but i still have a points total

i'm around the 400th highest ranked italian

UberNewb

eyerer wrote:

anyone else always see the message 'you are not in official mode'?
i always get that near the chat window, but i still have a points total

i'm around the 400th highest ranked italian

Yeah I noticed that aswell!

I still can't get online!

I've gone down to 43rd in the Spainsh rankings my highest was 8th on Thursday! The spanish players aren't that good, lol:D

stevenmu

KdjaC wrote:

Whats annoying is this is a free game why the fook does it need starforce. But there are loads of Demos that also have it.

If it's in the full game, then it needs to be in this free version and demos aswell, otherwise the warez monkeys can compare the executables to make their no-cd cracks. Of course that doesn't actually stop them, but it makes it alot harder.

stevenmu

<oops, double post>

KdjaCL

stevenmu wrote:

If it's in the full game, then it needs to be in this free version and demos aswell, otherwise the warez monkeys can compare the executables to make their no-cd cracks. Of course that doesn't actually stop them, but it makes it alot harder.

And the full games use a cd key to play online a proven system that works but still they worry about the cd....../me shrugs.


kdjac

Pugsley

Havent played this game yet (internet at home is down, posting from uni).

But on the topic of starforce, as for stopping noCD's (which its desgined for) its useless, its just as easy to work around as secuROM or any of the other methods, and whats worse is 1 method gets past ALL starforce games without fail, and no, you dont even have to unplug your CD rom's. As for it doing no damage, a guy in Australia who runs as series of net cafe's got a load of new games for his business, and it ended up doing hardware damage to nearly 1 in 8 PC's because some of the games had starforce, ended up causing several thousand pounds worth of damage, starforce paid for all damages and some compensation too post haste, if it truely didnt damage your PC, why would they just throw thousands of pounds at this guy? A link to the story was posted on this forum about 6months ago, if someone is willing to dig it up, its worth a read.

eyerer

interesting, yeah....someone dig it out...

madrab

the_syco wrote:

I had to reinstall Windows XP 64bit.


What version Windows do you have?

xp

eyerer

does anyone know why i now get the message 'invalid key' when i try to login?

either their server is ****ed again or my account deleted...