Condemned - Fixed Exe Problem

[TheBurns]

Hi,

I have a problem with CONDEMNED and the fixed Exe from GCW: After installing the game and copying the fixed exe over the original exe, condemned crashes after starting and my pc reboots.

Does someone has the same or a similar problem?

Thanx for help!

[RincewindTheWiz]

Does it start without the crack (and with the original cd) ?

[TheBurns]

Yes, the Original does start.

[Yummy Sprinkles]

I've got nothing to back this assumption up, but it seems like another no-cd patch in an increasing number of poorly made no-cd cracks. With the proliferation of mini-images these days, I'm wondering if crackers are getting lazier and releasing their first version of a crack, rather than taking some extra time to really test it out to see if it works.

This no-cd patch for Condemned works for me, but the last three I tried for other games either don't work at all, or introduce crashes in-game. The last non-working one I tried was for Tomb Raider Legend. The game starts fine, but it crashes virtually any time you try and use Lara's grappling magnet. Using the original CD removes these crashes, so it's obviously a product of the patch.

[TheBurns]

Well, i don't want to start a debatte on quality of fixed exes.

Anyway, interesting, that the exe works for you - an the one from Tomb Raider Legend for me. Seems, if the working of fixed exes depends on concrete conditions of the system.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Exactly; there may be a lot of circumstances that make the crack work on one system but not on another. And the more complicated the copy protection is, the more such ciscumstances may exist.

I have no idea how many PC's professional crackers test their releases on but, yeah, a bit of more quality assurances would be welcome. However, who are we, users of freebies, to complain?