I purchased it a couple of years ago (legally) at a local Best Buy, and installed it first on what was at the time my desktop computer, and now I had installed it on my new laptop. It was working fine for a couple of weeks, when suddenly it started lagging like crazy...
The game is the 2004 Starship Troopers FPS, and apparently every time I run it, it (re)creates a program and process called "~e5.0001", which --- if terminated --- kills the game. Apparently it's some sort of DRM that comes with EA games... and it's preventing me, a legitimate owner of the game, from playing the game.
****ing DRM.
So, what can I do to get this game working again?