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That is great for whatever other hardware you are running, but in my experience, ATI = crashes. So far the only crashes I have had with my Nvidia card are when I was pushing it a little harder than I should have.
Right, but what I was pointing out is that I have multiple hardware platforms, and almost every video card made by the two companies, and I have far more problems with Nvidia than ATI. Just like you said, you're experience could be more to do with your hardware than anything, where-as I have tested across no less than 10 different machines, and I'm able to consistantly see Nvidia driver defects, and I can directly attribute the crashes to the driver, where-as you are simply speculating as to the problem.
On the HL2 protection, I am sure there will be a crack made available, as they've even managed to crack XP's protection which is along these lines, but it won't be easy. They have already rewritten most of it since the source code leak (that was the biggest headache for them when the code leaked), but it doesn't take long to plug in a network sniffer and see what is getting reported. Then write a simple TCP (or UDP, whichever it uses) server that replies with "CD-KEY OK" no matter what key its given, then change the hosts file for auth.valve.com (or whatever the host is) to 127.0.0.1 and volia.  Of course, they will go about it the hard way and actually edit the ASM... Damn crackers... :P
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