Approximately two weeks after the initial release, EMPRESS released the "Crackfix" (often labeled Empress Crackfix or Update 1.0.5.0 + Crackfix ). This was not a game update; it was a replacement of the .exe and .dll files.

(released to fix Mercenaries mode and the Chapter 12 crash) introduced a new DRM wrapper that is extremely sensitive to three things: Legacy GPU drivers, corrupted shader caches, and Windows User Account Control (UAC).

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