Ok might be long winded here. I bought the game downloaded the patch 1.2 and forgot to install it. Two weeks later I'm wondering why I have so much stuff and so much money. So I realize my inn storage is dup-ing a bunch of stuff, kewl or not. Man the patch should have taken care of that, so I see, I never installed it. Well ok lets install it. Meanwhile history, I never ran alcohol or daemon or cd-rom emulator programs on my pc so it aint that. After patch install, I double click Icon to start game, thinking pointer, and booply-boop, please insert the original DVD. Haha, i aint never taken the dang thing out since I bought it. But hey maybe it ran away. Nope its there. After about 6 trys it lets me in. Course the next day it does the same thing. 4-6 trys and I'm in. Ok, lets email Atari. Reply, your email was recieved and we will get back to you, in the mean time please read about the game stealers favorite program that our game don't like." Whatever. Next day, another email saying, patch day, please install our new patch 1.2a.Ok long story short, theres gotta be something other than a compatibility issue with this patch and the DL version if they telling me it will fix my retail version which I never told them what version I had. Welcome to the begginning. YOUR FIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE-DA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!