Silent Hill 4 Crashing Due To Crack Help

[Asimov]

Silent hill 4 is just freezing up when I try to remove the stones/plates/tablets off of the doors in the subway station and in the prison. Instead of giving a short line of explanation it goes directly to the blue text of the items name and then just hangs. The 1.0 cracks from Vengeance and Project Deadman both have the problem. I know it is the cracks fault because I replaced the original exe and it worked fine with the DVD. Anyone else getting the same problem? If you know a solution please let me know.

[nErD]

Also good to here what OS you have. Maybe it will fix out in next update (then it will be a new crack out).

[GLH]

Just play the game at this position with your original. Then save your game and restart the game (load your game) with crack.

[Asimov]

I'm running Windows XP SP2.

[Asimov]

Anybody know if its possible to make a 1:1 copy without having to use a crack?

[fortuna]

Same problem here! Every time I try to remove a plaque, or pick some items up (such as the medalions), the game would freeeze.
And just like you if I replace the exe file with the original one the game works perfectly in those "black spots".
Yesterday i realized that if in the fixed exe I set the language in Japanese, the game won't freeze but crashes.... absolutely odd.

I have no solution, but well, at least you know you're not the only one. Besides the weirdest thing is that I know of many people for whom the patch works great...

By the way, I'm using the patch just because the trainer won't work with the original exe, is that your case too?

May someone have a solution for us!