Hi XP5, that's great that it's not happening anymore! From your original description it was sounding like a problem that only gets triggered with a cracked copy.

It could also be related to some video driver problem, sometimes bugs in video drivers manifest themselves in strange ways and the video drivers are so complex these days that it is not too unusual for there to be a problem there. If you run into it again you may want to update your video drivers to the newest version to see if that might possibly help.

Happy New Year!

- Michael