Quote Originally Posted by P.A.D> View Post

Scali says:
November 10, 2011 at 3:41 pm

Since he refuses to say what was fixed (in fact, at this point, nobody even confirmed that it actually fixed anything), there is nothing to comment on at this point.
In fact, from the video you can’t even tell whether it’s the Steam version of the game or not. Standalone versions of games didn’t suffer from the issues.

Just so you know Stilt, some people that tried this say it does not fix anything? I say this as a friend, not in a bad way.
Yeah, I have already read that before and I don´t even bother commenting his post since he has obviously not tried it by himself.

I must admit that he got atleast something right: Indeed some of the cracked versions of these games work on Bulldozer even without the fix. This is because the Valve CEG protection has been completely disabled. However there is atleast one cracked version available (from "18 and Life..") which still has the Valve CEG protection active. It is just being emulated in order to get the game running. This version will cause BSOD on Bulldozer unless the fix is used, just like the original one from Steam (yeah, I have tried them both).