Yes, and I had absolutely no problems with the crashing before I installed the cracked EXE. The crashing problem seems to be occuring for about 25-30% of the times that the loading screen comes up, so if there's a way to fix the problem that would be awesome :)
I'm using a single core AMD64 3500+ at the moment.
Any ideas about this?
Just to isolate the problem, have you tried playing without the cracked EXE and just using a 4:3 ratio resolution (i know, i know... 4:3 is evil :P ) ... see if it still crashes for you in 1280x1024.
btw, what cpu are you using? AMD X2 or dual-core?