Honestly, for me the Starforce DRM was a reason to stay away from DCS for a long time. There is nothing really good to say about Starforce, other than that it is not as bad as 10 years ago. Now mind you, DCS is worth the money and the eventual trouble you MIGHT find with DRM.

When I first bought the A-10C, and was first time in my new shiny cockpit, all reservations about the DRM were forgotten. And as example: I am having a problem with the MiG-21 Module & Activation right now, I wrote a email to Leather Neck Studios and had a response in a few hours.:) Just to clarify, this is the first activation trouble I am having in over 2 years of DCS nerdiness with all modules. Hi peterako - Info on the DRM - The DRM is used because DCS is sold outside of Steam (actually sold for years before it came here) and that it's an activation/deactivate tech that allows your machine to be offline, i.e. You can activate via emails rather than your machine having to have a net connection (important for some DCS customers). - The tech is called 'Proactive AAA', although it was the same company that previously made the controversial Starforce drivers. This DRM doesn't use drivers or Ring0 or anything like that, and actually requires less permissions than running Steam. - You get 10 machine activation, with an activation given back once a month.

You can also deactivate first before wiping your machine (say before a big hardware upgrade) to avoid 'losing' an activation. There's a FAQ here, plus a section in each quick start guide per module: Hope that helps! You get 10 activations, once the last one is used up it *should* regenerate once a month. I lost 1 activation upgrading my PC 1 activation to a program/system bug that triggered false re-activations I should have ignored and 1 activation from each of the 4 modules I owned/rented (at that time) when my PC got a virus/system hook and I had to wipe my hard drive to be sure of removing it. Bruce silver bpmn method and style pdf viewer. I still have 7 activations left on the A-10C module which I've owned for 2 years. The DRM is the worst thing about DCSW and it kept me away from the product but it's one of the very few modern combat simulators still available/in development and so deserves support.

You keep getting activations because you press CTRL or Shift keys while launching, that forces the activation window to come up. Simply click exit, instead of next. StarForce in the past had issues, but those were for those who were trying to hack it. Really, StarForce ran a challenge to prove that by itself it doesn't cause problems, but only if you start messing with it. StarForce got a lot of flack for something it didn't do wrong. People are just unforgiving, and like to steal stuff, and StarForce prevented that, as it's a good DRM.

Details on activation on the ProActive website. Internet connection is necessary. Install the application and launch it. You are suggested to enter the Serial Number you obtained when purchasing the product, in the first window. When I requested more serial keys off the developer after running out (Or should I say activation keys)? I kept them safe until I needed them,.