That problem, that I tryed to have him fix is only in Vista, and 7, at least I believe. I believe its the crack that is causing a problem, I had this same problem once recently, but now for some odd reason, I have the legit disc, and I get tons of graphics bugs everywere if i minimize, say to look at skype. Thats off topic anyways but if anyone knows how to fix that would be nice. Your best bet is to find a new fix for your game exe, or crack like you said. I won't point you in the direction of that, because I know that it is not allowed on this forums, and thats fine. But you should be able to find one easy, try different ones. You should get the game to work. If not I can try to figure if I had did something different to get it to work, when I had that problem.