*Quality* of PC fixed exe's

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Originally Posted by Muji-FightR

Besides, if groups knew their cracks don't work, they wouldn't release them.
It's not like they're going "This crack doesn't work at all...but my tools suck...and I wanna be first...Fuck it, I'll just release it anyway"

while in general thats true, there are quite a few exceptions to it, a prime example being bioshock crack by fairlight

and it is also true about poor quality cracks, in quite a few cases, especially ones where the vm is 'compromised' instead of being rebuilt strange things happened, especially on machines that were not the same chipset as the one the crack was made from (dump memory / vm code, patch up vm etc.. it was overlooked in some cases that the actual vm code was encrypted against things like the cpuid, processid and various other things).

some crashes are also 'external' - caused by bad installations of direct x, missing c runtimes (the sxs mess), no installation of .net runtimes, old / outdated video drivers... generally, most of the cracks work and are tried and tested, but some are not tested fully, due to the racing the warez teams do on releases