I stumbled upon a more or less "funny feature" of the game.
When I first started the game w/ the GHC crack, everything seemed to be fine like NoCDs should normally be, but when I finished the character creation and was about to enter a name, it simply crashed to desktop, no error message or anything else pointing to the cause....
I tried it about 5 times, simply had no luck
So I did not even have those problems with controls etc.
Though I used a mini image then (so it can't be up to any crack at all, neither GHC or iND) the game sometimes just shuts down, similar to my problem after the character creation, I've had that 3 times, always during the last mission, when I already had finished a good protion of it (40 min) x(
Strange, this never happened during free drive, only while playing the last mission....
Hehe, uninstalled it now, made me fucking angry, but in the very end, I eventually won :P