It's also worth bearing in mind, though, that some cracked games don't work very well.
The cracked version of Hitman:Blood Money, for example, had a load of bugs that caused lock-ups and crashes, which the legal version did not.
Woah there.
I said nothing about illegal/cracked game.
A cracked exe/no-cd loader is different that a cracked/downloaded game.
While trying to torrent/dl a game you can get tons of issues.
I'd say 99% of the time you can use a no-cd loader/cracked exe to play YOUR game without swapping cd.
A number of posts here WERE talking about cracked games. Even if you own the CD, if you run the game without it you will need the cracked exe.
I was speaking of experience with the Hitman crack. I purchased it on Ebay, and much to my displeasure received a cracked game. Being weak, I installed it whilst I waited for my genuine copy (yes, I ordered another copy to be legit). The game had numerous issues.
When the legit copy arrived, I reinstalled and hey presto - it ran fine. I'm not the only person who'se encountered this problem - the issue arises with cracked games installed from CD -
NOT just torrent downloads.
So, even if you innstalled from CD, you may still get problems using no-CD cracks.