Question The Ant Bully.exe "Your operating system does not meet the minimum requiremnts to run this application

[MolecularFae]

I have recently gotten the Ant Bully for my Windows 11 computer. Everything was going well at first. I began the installation process of disk 1, and as the program needed disk 2, I entered the path directory of where the pre-installed disk 2 was located to complete the process. I was then informed on the games window screen that I had to install protection drivers, so I did, which required me to reboot my computer (where I select yes to restart now).

I logged in, saw the game shortcut icon was already now on my desktop, double-clicked it, and the games menu windows popped up. The first option in the list was Play Game, so I clicked on that, and got this message saying, "Your operating system does not meet the minimum requirements to run this application." I clicked on Run Diagnostic, an option which the game gives, to figure out why my system does not meet the requirements.

It ran a diagnostic scan and came back with an error report of "Error 3002," and then pointed me to a link of errors and explaining them; however, my error of 3002 was not included. While continuing to read the link, I saw it does include down at the bottom an option for if your error is not provided. It was a url link of something called SF FrontLine Drivers FAQ. I clicked on it and it took me to a login page of a website called StarForce.

After browsing the website, I could not find an option to register, so I went back to the login screen to see if i missed something. I saw a button option for technical support, on the right top edge corner of the website. I clicked on it and it redirected me to a different page of the website where a contact forum for technical support was provided to fill out instead. I clicked on this option button called SFhelper. Thatt redirected me to another page about this programmer of SFhelper.

Apparently it's a program that helps navigate the cause as to why the application with Starforce-related components will not work. I ran the installation, ant bully.exe, in my programs files of my computer and it came back with the same error that my system does not meet the requirements to play the game.

I don't know what to do to get my game to run on Windows 11x64. I don't know why the program said Windows 10 when I'm a windows 11, but anyway, if anyone can help on how I can run this game from its old protection drivers on a Windows 11x64 computer, it would be very helpful and much appreciated

(Mod edit) Following is advice received from Star Force :

Unfortunately, this application uses very old protection version 4.00.010.004 and will not run under Windows 10 x64.

You can read about support of Windows 10 x64 here: http://www.star-force.com/support/users/

You should contact your product customer support service and ask them to make a patch, which will either update protection system version or remove protection at all.
Unfortunately, StarForce company can't build such a patch since we neither have legal authority to produce any patches nor original application files required for that.

Please, accept our apologies for the inconveniences.

If after installation of the protected application there is a message about incompatibility of the protection system driver after OS start up then in order to solve it you can uninstall StarForce driver.

But note that if the protected application requires the StarForce driver, this driver will be reinstalled as soon as you launch the application again.

The following procedure will ensure that all StarForce related components are completely removed from your system.

1. Download the SFREMOVE tool as a ZIP archive: http://www.star-force.com/support/sfdrvrem.zip
2. Extract and store sfdrvrem.exe anywhere on your hard disk.
3. Run sfdrvrem.exe.

[Mod edit: added paragraph breaks for readability.]

 

[COLGeek]

Cross posted here:

Question - The Ant Bully.exe "Your operating system does not meet the minimum requiremnts to run this application

I have recently gotten the Ant Bully for my Windows 11 computer. Everything was going well at first. I began the installation process of disk 1, and as the program needed disk 2, I entered the path directory of where the pre-installed disk 2 was located to complete the process. I was then...

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[ex_bubblehead]

You're not going to get any different answers here than you are getting at the above link.

 

[COLGeek]

As pointed out, you have received good input on your PCG thread. You have quite the predicament with the old game and its requirements, with few viable options to get it to work.

You might be better served picking up an old system with XP/Vista/7 on it now and leaving your current system out of the mix.

Your local Craigslist may have such an old rig.

 

[gamerk316]

Problem is, all those old copy-protection mechanisms no longer work on newer versions of Windows. Some games have patches (or outright hacks, legality aside) that remove those protections. Your only options aside from that is to build an old system, or possibly use a VM to emulate an older Windows version (and even then I'm not sure how that will work as far as copy-protection goes).