Referring to my post #603 above, it loaded up fine when I disabled my sound card drivers at the advice of Freya. I have an AOpen AW200 sound card which is, I believe, a soundblaster clone or soundblaster-compatible. Apparently there is a compatiblity with either this card in particular or some Soundblaster cards. Now if I could just play the game with sound ..... ~SDC~
Freya, you're a genius. I disabled my sound card drivers and it loaded perfectly. My sound card is an AOpen AW200 which I am given to understand is a Soundblaster clone, or Soundblaster-compatible at any rate. Yes, I have all the latest drivers installed for video and audio. It is apparently a sound card compatiblity issue. I have seen a few others complain about the same thing. I hope they read this. Now I hope the tech support people can just figure out what it is about
Just bought the game and installed it, then downloaded the most recent updates from SD Central. The game locks up when I try to start a game. It goes to what looks like the first screen with a pie-shaped menu in the left corner and then completely locks up. I have to do a complete reboot to get out of it. AMD Duron 800 nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AW200 sound card 512 RAM ~SDC~
I can't even start a game. It locks up at the first screen it comes to, which looks like a sectioned pie in the upper left corner. It buzzes just before it locks up. I have set my sound acceleration at each setting and it does not good. I have set my desktop resolutions to diff settings (i.e., 1024x768x16, etc.) and still I lock up. I have a Duron 800 system with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and 256 MRam. I don't have any problems running any other games or apps, just this one. Any ideas?
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