NOLF2 works on Windows 10 (with the no-cd crack). As I have bought it years back (DVD-form) and my current laptop doesn't have the dvd-reader in (using the ultrabay as a slot for the hdd) it's not piracy.

When you have bought the game, i dont think it's bad if you use no-cd cracks, even more when the games are so fu**ed-up by drm that you can't even run them on modern systems anymore.

Just like you can choose to use Windows XP? Not really a choice at this point in time. You are probably trolling me but I thought I should respond anyway.

Signing a driver isn't cracking, though grabbing a crack may be faster.

Nothing wrong with using no-cd cracks but illegally downloading the game is a different story.

Hence why I said above "unless you resort to cracking", but not everyone is comfortable using cracks.

Well, I actually installed it from the dvd using the sh*tty Samsung USB dvd-reader/writer.
IMHO it SHOULDN'T (didn't say it isn't) be illegal to download the game if I have already bought it.

Cracks

but you didn't say you installed it off of the disc either. Since you said you have no disc drive wouldn't it make more sense to assume you downloaded it?

There are DVD drives working through USB.
Also do you know what Ultrabay is? I should have the DVD-writer somewhere in the pile of electronics in my work-room.

Hmm, does it work on Windows 10, too? I thought that the driver was completely removed on Windows 10 and this is only good for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 (where the driver is turned off by default). From this article:

This will make your Windows PC less secure, and it shouldn’t work on Windows 10, where the driver has been completely removed.

Yes BUT that still counts as a disc drive does it not? Unless there is some trendy hip new classification for internal and external disc drives. that I missed, They're both just disc drives.

Dude chill down, it's sunday evening. Need to hold those negative vibes for tomorrow.
Just said that i used a dvd writer after I read your comment about DLing stuff illegally, thought of it as you saying i download games from illegal placed, probably a mixup in tone as I am a (kinda) old man and haven't actually learned english (only russian, swedish and german)

Short version, yes, assuming you can get your hands on the secdrv.sys, which I believe should be part of the CD files (not 100% sure about this though).

Long version:
The reason the driver is no longer loaded is because it is not signed. The update doesn't target the specific driver, but it was meant to prevent any unsigned driver from being loaded by the system, to prevent people from using maliciously modified drivers to target computers. Said commands on Win7 and Win8 allow them to start the service, even though the driver is unsigned. Microsoft cannot guarantee that the driver is what it claims to be, so it is possible that it can be replaced with a malicious one that can compromise your machine, thus the warning.
Enter driver signing.
If secdrv.sys is signed with a certificate that is included in your machine, Win10 will happily load it and use it. Problem is though that since there isn't currently a secdrv.sys signed with a certificate that is part of current Windows installation, you'll also need to install the certificate. Since Windows only checks if the certificate used to sign a driver exists in your machine, one certificate can be used to sign multiple drivers, and grabbing a signed copy of secdrv.sys and its certificate from the internet means that the same certificate can be used to sign malware. So you'll have to sign the driver yourself.

For more info, option four in this article.

I'm confused more then anything.