Crazy idea but...

[Infernias]

Its not the CD files or the game data that gets corrupted, as far as i can tell it is some kind of hidden microsoft piracy protection program that kicks in when some fundamental function of the game is being edited.

Either way, complete reinstalls of the game do not work to fix the problem, i believe it may affect something in the registry, or enact some form of making it so that the copy of freelancer used cannot be used again.

Either way, all i know for sure is that a complete reinstall does not fix the problem caused, as it is described as a "complete corruption of the game install", so as far as i can tell it may have something to do with the registry (which naught but professionals should mess with).

Also -- even if a disk is read only, should we underestimate microsoft to have some way of permanently damaging the files on a disk? not necessarily re-writing anything, just making it unusable.

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