[Grumbling Grognard]

The system is a fresh install. HDD was complete reformat. It 'now' has a few other games and apps on it, but it is "pretty clean". Yep, first thing I did was update the drivers and a firmware update on the DVD R/W drive was required to get Neverwinter Nights 2 to work (SecuRom).

I do not own another DVD drive, or I would have swapped them out the first night as well. The other DVD drive (mentioned above) is at my Father's home, 60+ miles away and he uses it. And even if he did need his drive I am not going to rip it out of his box, reinstall it into my PC just to get an old game working that 'should' work in the first place.

IOW, I will not push the hidden costs of a multimillion dollar corporate software publisher onto my dear old Father who is retired, not in good health and has substancially less $$ than UBI does (oh, and he does not even like PC games!).

IMHO this entire issue is about "Hidden Costs" and the publishers pushing them onto honest comsumers instead of bearing the ANY of these costs themselves (think about it, they really do not take ANY losses from piracy...they just pass them along to us...so if I am paying anyway...just in different ways). I would rather pay an extra $5-10 without this crap-copy protection software to help pay for these lost revenues...oh wait...we ALREADY ARE PAYING THIS ADDED COST AS WELL!!!!

Thanks anyway,
GG