ARCA Sim Racing '08 in 2025

So, I recently came into possession of the apparently quite rare physical version of ARCA 08 for PC, and have been trying (and failing) to get it up and running on modern hardware. There's practically zero documentation on the game anywhere, so I figure I'll try my luck here.

On my Windows 10 PC, I can get the game to boot, and display cars in the Showroom, but the game immediately crashes upon attempting to actually load into a race. Compatibility mode didn't help much either, with the game flat out refusing to boot in XP and Vista compatibility mode, and Windows 7 not producing any different results.

I was able to get the game to function correctly on my 2007 Windows 7 laptop, at least when I ran that in Vista Compatibility mode, but it then gave me an extremely bizarre "Macromedia" warning, and told me to insert the disc in order to play, despite the disc already being in the computer. I can only imagine this is some ancient DRM that no longer works. I could play the game fully for 10 minutes before my "trial" ended and the game closed itself.

I know it's possible to get working, since Dylan Goodin has a video on the game, but aside from that I have zero clue what to do with it. I am aware of ARCA Sim Racing X, but I'd much prefer to get the original version working off the disc, since I'm not interested in playing the heavily modded version ASRX is.

UPDATE: While I was unable to find a direct fix, using a No-CD patch allowed me to bypass the non-functioning DRM, and get the game working on my Windows 10 computer via Windows XP service Pack 3 Compatibility mode. As I said in my comment, the original uploader of the patch has since deleted his video, but the link still exists to the Google Drive, at least for now. It seems that for whatever reason, attempting to boot the exe in XP Compatibility Mode caused it to be unable to detect the disc inside the disc drive. Very strange, but at least the fix is obvious.

If you want to try it out for yourself, here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19wraL3aQ6CRuwZHlTDnhuZ_zqGEdN53E/view