Well, I've tried "everything" I can think of these last 3 days and it's just not working.

Tonight I tried rolling back my wmp to 9, un-installed VLC, ran a reg. cleaner to catch any of the left behind files.

Turned PhysX off.

Changed my desktop rez to 800x600 and 1024x768, and changed the rez to match in the game's options menu...

Nothing worked, I simply can't get past the "Start New Game" loading icon before it shuts down and sends me to the desktop. Sometimes with the Microsoft error report to send...but never with any kind of error code. No Blue Screens of Death lol

btw Lar_q, I CAN play every video from the game folder...it never said I needed a codec, they all played fine.

So short of doing a fresh install of XP Pro I have no clue what to try next frown

A bit "deflated" atm but I won't give up!!!

But I think a break is called for, to re-energize and perhaps allow some free-form thoughts and ideas to come to the surface lol

Any more suggestions I'm all ears wink

Thanks for all the help!

I'll keep you posted smile

Regards


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