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Originally Posted by HarryT
What did the game's publisher say when you contacted their technical support department to ask for assistance with the issue?
It is common for applications that are closely tied to the machine's hardware, such as games, to have issues with new operating systems. Generally the publisher will issue a patch to sort out the problem.
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In most of these examples, it's not the OS. There was a form of DRM used on games for a while that would rely on certain features in the CD-ROM drive in your computer to identify the difference between an original disk and a copy. Some brands of CD/DVD-ROM drives don't do this though, so that game will never run on your hardware. It's not an OS problem that a patch can solve, it's a hardware issue with your drive. The only way the company can "fix" the issue is to remove the DRM. There's a specific name for this type of DRM, but I can't remember it off the top of my head.
The standard solution for it (even proposed by some companies) is to go on the "darknet" and find a cracked version of the game that has had that part of the DRM stripped.