I didn't doubt that the post would get pulled, but I did get a much faster reply to my prob when I posted a solution didn't I?

<t>That's just about right, I didn't even need to burn a copy as it was a noCD crack. My main point, however is why do games companies insist on using SafeDisc which is incompatible with many CD drives and is easily overridden by freely available patches (so no real benefit to the end user or the ...

I am also experiencing this problem running SUDG on Windows XP, DirectX 9 and a Soundblaster Live! Player 1024. Whether it's an XP problem or a Soundblaster problem I don't know, but the Soundblaster has caused problems in many other games.

<t>Why, when I posted a solution to a known defective piece of software (namely SafeDisc) did I get a much quicker response than when I posted a genuine call for help. Westwood had a similar problem with Dune 2000 and released a patch to allow the software to run on CD drives that could not read the ...