jepp, you can
- make a copy of your original cd1 (CloneCD/Blindwrite)
- install DT344
- mount the image with DT
play the game. you will not lose money and the factions will not become more and more hostile.
do NOT start the game from the autorun-screen (the one that pops up, when the disc is 'inserted'). Its is said, that even having the original disc in drive will sometimes toggle that nasty, faulty securom-protection. Better start from menu or desktop-link
do NOT use any emulation from within DT to emulate securom or else. that will not work.
I played for quite some time and i have no money-leakage or Borons going wild on me
You have to delete the backup-image when you do not own X2 anymore...
hey, mod -> i hope that is OK. if not, please don't kick me too hard and just delete my post. no offence intended. we are talking about legal backups, not warez!
P.S.: the check will be done anyway (its an original exe you are playing), but X2 does not know it is running with an image instead of a real disc. DT mount images as virtual CD-Drives. No swapping, no fear to scratch your disc to death...