I was looking to start running this game and I got it on PC for faster load times but I keep getting the error message "you must reboot your system to complete the installation of sitting ducks protection drivers" But nothing changes upon reboot/shut down. Please let me know if anyone has a fix

Have you launched with administrator privileges?

Also, try putting it in Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 compatibility mode

Yes, there's a different error message I got earlier when I wasn't opening as administrator.

XP, Vista and 7 compatibility mode didn't change anything, but oddly enough windows 98 gave an error message saying that it wouldn't allow me to run this software in compatibility mode (From star force copy protection, not from windows)

I think there is an issue that Starforce can't work on Windows 10, From what I know the release that is online doesn't have it, some releases have Starforce and other versions do not such as the second Russian release not having Starforce but the first one does. My advice, try installing an iso of the game from a different source.

I just tried to run the game on 3 different virtual machines, one XP, one vista, and one windows 7

No change from 7 and vista, exact same error

XP was looking good, it asked for the product key and I got quite a bit further but because direct 3D acceleration doesn't seem to have a way to be enabled on XP, I couldn't start the game as It would just give the error, direct 3D failed to initialize.

Is there any way I could still get the game to work?

Message me on Discord, and we can talk, it is possible on a VM with installing guest tools and such it might not be ideal though, or I can help with it on Windows 10.