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I'm a casual player but I have bought and have originals of ALL my
games, using fixed exes only because my kid has nasty habit of
lifting DVDs from the floor by dragging it around..anyway...

Now I know that we get these fixed executables published on GCW for
free but...after a recent ugly experience wile playing one game I
came to conclusion that quality of fixed executables from some
cracking groups are gone down the drain. I mean, those fixed
exes from RELOADED are just pure cr**.
Why there is no rule in the scene that protection must be removed completely
and not just dump 50MB exe that is somehow bypassing DVD check and call that a crack?!
Now some will say "but it works, I don't care how it is cracked"..
That is exactly a reason why I'm posting this... half of those dumped-
SecuROM-wrapped executables in fact works bad and it's better to use
original because you are facing corrupted save games halfway though
the game, crashes on last bosses etc...Not to mention you have no idea
what kind of crap is crawling through your memory from that 40MB+
dump...

To sum it up - from my experience, most of these SecuROM-dumps cracks
have some kind of problem during a game that is not
apparent using original disc and exe. But you have to play long and
hard through the game to be able to notice it (and no, I'm not talking
about protection that some developers are putting at some stage in the
game, I'm talking about apparent problem with rebuilded exe..)

The point is - if you do not know how to crack properly - DON'T DO IT AT ALL!
I'll rather use original disc than download that SecuROM workaround-dump...

Yes, I know rebuilding and removing SecuROM from exe completely
is very hard, but it can be done and some groups should LEARN how to
do it before releasing it to the public. For example - yes, Vitality
also had some bad cracks, but at least they know what they are
doing...JMHOOC.

Regards