Posted May 05, 2012
I cannot get this game to run, at all.
I am on a Windows XP system, hardware well above the requirements of the game.
I had an original disc-based copy installed, and it ran fine on this same machine/Windows install--before I added a sound card. Initially I had been using onboard sound, and upgraded to an Asus Xonar D1. That's when the bluescreen problem started. I checked and found that others with this same Xonar sound card were able to successfully run the game. So, thinking that it was somehow related to DRM, I re-purchased the game from GOG ... no biggie, because i really do like and want to play the game again.
The GOG version will not run either. Sometimes I get to a black screen, but mostly just bluescreens that show various errors, none of them that offer any real hint as to what the problem is. There's no rhyme or reason to which one shows up.
I uninstalled/reinstalled the game several times. Uninstalled/reinstalled the sound card drivers. Ran Memtest, updated graphics drivers, direct-x, etc. to no avail, and at this point I'm stumped. All other games on my system (including AC 2 and Brotherhood) start up and work just as they always did before the addition of the sound card. I think the problem MAY be related to the DSP mode in use ... this one game does not seem to like any of them ... and ASUS tech support is useless/non-existent as usual.
I know the GOG version works, because my daughter installed and ran it on her (almost identical) machine. She has a sound card with the same basic sound chip. And I am not going back to onboard sound for just one game.
Does anybody have any ideas what might have gone wrong?
I am on a Windows XP system, hardware well above the requirements of the game.
I had an original disc-based copy installed, and it ran fine on this same machine/Windows install--before I added a sound card. Initially I had been using onboard sound, and upgraded to an Asus Xonar D1. That's when the bluescreen problem started. I checked and found that others with this same Xonar sound card were able to successfully run the game. So, thinking that it was somehow related to DRM, I re-purchased the game from GOG ... no biggie, because i really do like and want to play the game again.
The GOG version will not run either. Sometimes I get to a black screen, but mostly just bluescreens that show various errors, none of them that offer any real hint as to what the problem is. There's no rhyme or reason to which one shows up.
I uninstalled/reinstalled the game several times. Uninstalled/reinstalled the sound card drivers. Ran Memtest, updated graphics drivers, direct-x, etc. to no avail, and at this point I'm stumped. All other games on my system (including AC 2 and Brotherhood) start up and work just as they always did before the addition of the sound card. I think the problem MAY be related to the DSP mode in use ... this one game does not seem to like any of them ... and ASUS tech support is useless/non-existent as usual.
I know the GOG version works, because my daughter installed and ran it on her (almost identical) machine. She has a sound card with the same basic sound chip. And I am not going back to onboard sound for just one game.
Does anybody have any ideas what might have gone wrong?
