it is copy protection related, not crack related a bad crack wont get past the protection, but it is the protection that causes this issue.
and the copy protection can be triggered by many things. not just cracks.
as it stands there are 2 ways to play this game without the disk and without any interferance what so ever from the protection.
so either all the pirates these days are thick, or retail users are beggining to find problems with they're legal games due to copy protection, now where have we heard that before.
if the people who have these issues are all pirates. and they can find, download and install the game. why cant they find the working crack?
there is a small (
) chance that the people who cant get the game working are the casual gamers who put the disk in and wait for it to start.not the pirates, who know all the tricks of the trade and wouldnt be in here asking you for help anyway.
and yes i do have the legal retail game
i pay for what i play. and i like to play online, + the recognition manual comes in handy. although i wont ever listen to that music disk....
in short, he might not be using a crack, so dont always assume, to say the protection is flawless is in itself a little bit crazy.
it will cause problems for honest people aswell.
and the sad thing is that for them theyre only hope would be a crack. wich beats the protection
its a funny old world.
im just saying btw, because when anyone at all has any kind of problem the first thing ppl say is, use the real disk...
well they used to say that about starforce and securerom too.