I can't get the NO-CD to work for the latest version. Here's what I'm doing.
I installed the game from scratch. I went to
www.sacred-game.com and got the latest patch I could get, which is the Sacred Plus patch. The topmost link doesn't work, but ingame with the CD the version displayed is 1.8.2.
I've done all of the below afterwards:
Switched in the sacred.exe file from the archive
Put in the sacred.org file from the archive
Changed the original sacred.exe file to sacred.org and put in the sacred.exe from the archive
I've got the .dll file in there as well, but every time I double-click on the .exe file, nothing happens. When I put the original .exe file back, I get the CD check. Maybe if someone could give me a working link to the most recent patch? I think that's most likely my problem.