TryMedia ActiveMark protected casual games won't run

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I have several casual games (such as Bejeweled, Zuma, Poppit, etc.) which I have paid for. However, these games use TryMedia's ActiveMark DRM copy protection. When you launch the game, the DRM prevents it from running under Parallels with the following error:

This application cannot run with an active debugger in memory.
Please unload the debugger and restart the application.

I am not running any sort of debugger. It appears that something about Parallels triggers the DRM's anti-debugger defense. Similar non-DRM'ed games run fine under Parallels, as these games are not graphic intensive, so I'm fairly confident that these games would perform acceptably if they would run. I would really like to be able to play the games that I own under Parallels, without having to reboot into Boot Camp.

Is this a known Parallels issue that's being worked on? Is there anything I can do with my setup to get it to work?

Details: Parallels build 3188 (running Windows XP SP2) on Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a MacBook with 2GB RAM.

Thanks,
-Mike
 
Hugh Watkins said:
are you using a parallels beta?
please state versions of OSes parallels and so on

Hugh W
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I stated that in my original post:

webdeck said:
Details: Parallels build 3188 (running Windows XP SP2) on Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a MacBook with 2GB RAM.
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Don't purchase software from them in the future that's DRM'd?

That's what I've come to decide. It just causes hassles for me, doesn't seem to keep the price down - so I buy only products that I can move around without restriction.
 
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