Last year I bought myself a copy of NFS Hot Pursuit as my own birthday present, pop it in, have it installed and run, Vola! Crash with some stupid error 0x0000006deadbeef. Surfing to figure out what the heck went wrong, there all kinds of solutions like disabling 3 out of 4 processor cores in the system, downgrading to 32-bit XP and other lame solutions, spent a whole afternoon and still couldn't get it running. I finally fed up and downloaded a no-DVD crack, all in a sudden the game runs without any problem! - problem = crash, constant DVD and internet check up and shit. But the game without network play is dull and boring, so delete + purge, sold the game on second hand market.