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[Doubler]

I should recieve my copy tomorrow. If I can sneak in a couple of hours, I'll let you know what I think of it

[Doubler]

Excuse the double-post, but I'd like to put up a warning to those who plan on buying the game.

It suffers under an extremely oppressive copy protection that for some of the users (me included) refuses to allow them to run the game for no apparent reason. And no no-cd crack exists (yet) to bypass it.
You might want to make sure you can return the game before you buy it

Otherwise, the game has some excellent artwork (if I can believe the artbook :P) and is well supported by the developers with patches, free guides and possibly free additional content.

[bobson]

cracks exist! I've seen this game working (not at home ... not that good PC), and it wasn't a legal copy... Maybe it's a crack for polish edition only I do not know

[Doubler]

That's likely to be a workaround that most people won't be able to do, and which requires a payed-for version of Daemon tools. I've seen those around.
Let me rephrase it: No simple crack exists :P

Edit: oh, and I forgot to say earlier that the game has absolutely excellent music, judging from it's soundtrack.

[_r.u.s.s.]

i dont think that people with illegal versions of witcher will have a trial version of daemon tools :P

btw if you seriously are a saint and stuff, you can just use alcohol 30 days trial

[Blood-Pigggy]

Um, maybe it does the same thing that C&C3 does and just refuses to run the game if it senses any virtual drives like Daemon Tools or Alcohol %120?

Yeah, it's lame, but if it that's the case, then the people who can't figure out why the game won't work are retarded.

EDIT: HAHA, I was right, looking on Wikipedia it says it in the article. You'll just have to uninstall those programs.

[Doubler]

I wish it was that easy, but that's the odd thing: I don't have either installed. Never had Alcohol installed. Daemon tools long ago, but it, its drives and its registery keys are all gone. Still won't work. And believe me, I'm not the only one with the problem.

Irony is, possibly the only way for me to play my game is by using Daemon tools to create some kind of virtual IDE thingey or somesutch.

[Mighty Midget]

Umm there are programs that will "camouflage" the virtual drives in Daemon Tools....

[Blood-Pigggy]

Those programs are pieces of trash, they don't work with C&C3.

[_r.u.s.s.]

just cause you cant run it doesnt mean its a trash :P