Update 2 arrived two weeks later, adding:
Stability & Fixes: A major highlight of the SKIDROW Update 1 and 2 was fixing a specific bug where horses would fall through the map during the Afghanistan missions when playing on CPUs with four or more cores. Bug Fixes: Addressing known issues or bugs that
SKIDROW and Reloaded
Bug Fixes: Resolved "Error 58" and "Error 57" messages that prevented the game from loading for many users. Fixes for various crashes and stability issues
The resulting cracked t6sp.exe (v1.2) was 14.2MB, whereas the original Steam version was 41MB. That 26.8MB difference is the stripped DRM. This specific crack is still used today as the base for the "Plutonium" mod, which revitalized Black Ops II multiplayer in 2020. Update 2 arrived two weeks later, adding:
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