You can get around the problem with the crack (for a while) by starting a new game, quickly making a single character and beginning a new party, then reloading your old game.
But after a few hours of game play, I have found that the crack fails. Whenever I restore my games the game accuses me of piracy (I guess that's kind of true), renames all of my characters "pirate", takes away everything, and essentially makes the game unplayable. This happened with one saved game; I reloaded an earlier saved game, but it happens to that one too now.
The piracy message reads: "Steel.exe CRC failure" and then some more about piracy. Reinstalling the game from the zip file does not fix the problem.
Suggestions? I would suggest taking the game off the download list (it feels like quite a few hours of wasted time once the game fails), finding a manual, or fixing the crack.
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