I had problems with Scratches too - the game crashed whenever it felt like crashing. The only solution I could come up with was to install the latest driver for my graphics card. And I set the compatibility mode to Windows 2000. After these adjustments, the game worked fine on my computer which exceeded the system requirements by far. This was the original Scratches, though. Good to know that the DC causes even more trouble; this is a good reason to avoid buying it. Not that I felt like doing so anyway... the original Scratches is enough
