I know but I explained the reason for doing so. If disturbing, moderators may delete this topic and move the one from technical assistance here instead.

Since I am unable to get developer attention in technical assistance forum and since I am not the only one experiencing this problem, I do believe this is a bug worth looking into.

Basically LFS requires me to unlock it every time after I have used hibernate or sleep on 64bit Vista SP1. I know it's somewhat of a known problem and FAQ tells you to restart but in my opition, this is really not a solution and quickly gets very annoying.

More info:
- Vista 64bit SP1, Intel Dual-core T7200, ATI Mobile X1600
- I have tried reinstalling
- I have tried removing the "Read-Only"
- I have tried restarting, locking it myself and unlocking again
- The game is installed on separate partition from Windows

Please see this topic for discussion so far.

LFS is installed on a separate partition from Windows files, D:\Games\LFS, so I don't think that is the problem, I have already tried reinstalling. Also, I don't really want to change OS just for one game, have not really had any problems with drivers, other games or such. I will switch for Windows 7 at the end of October, but it seems people are getting the same problem with it too.

I am a programmer myself and I don't think this is an impossible problem to solve. They are probably creating a system hardware stamp based on some parameters of which something changes with hibernation. This would have to be identified and a rule written to take this into account.

The very annoying problem remains and it seems I am not the only one. Do the devs have any opinion on this other that having to restart every time as instructed in FAQ?

Could you please explain exactly what you mean by that? I am not using multiple OS's or anything like that. Searched google for startup entries and such, but don't understand what you mean.

Off to a restart again to play some LFS

I have already tried that, unfortunately with no help.

Tried it and sure enough.. didn't help. Still locks itself after every hibernation/sleep

Well if I restart then it gets unlocked by itself. Will try to restart, locking it myself and unlocking again but I doubt it will make any difference.

If they are detecting configuration change, then there must me some parameter that differs after hibernation and it should be possible to take this into account?

LFS requires me to unlock it every time after I have used hibernate or sleep on 64bit Vista SP1. I have read the FAQ and know that restarting the system helps, but is this really the only way?

I always hibernate/sleep instead of turning the computer off entirely so I can resume my work quickly and it's really annoying having to wait several minutes every time I want to play LFS while the computer restarts and also have to close-restart my other programs.

Has it been investigated what is causing this and will it be fixed in coming versions or is there some other way to get it to unlock without a restart?