Having problems starting game

[iron mike]

Originally Posted by mothman

Gentlemen,

I will be glad to be of any assistance. Here are a few suggestions that I would have to ask each of you:

1. Depending upon your graphics card, (i.e. ATI, Nvidia) ensure that you are running the latest driver. When in doubt then please check.

2. Ensure that you have no High Priorty Updates and that your DirectX, Framework levels are optimum. To check open your IE Browser and select TOOLS > Windows Update > Wait for the analysis to complete and then verify that their are no High Priorty updates.

3. Turn off other third party tasks that are not necessary. Check your system tray and close any tasks.

4. Next perform the following command in your Start > RUN window. Command is "DXDiag" without the quotes. Once the window displays verify in each tab that your DirectX contains no errors. You may want to SAVE this info to a text file and post it to this site in order for further assistance.

After performing the above then here are a few questions for you:

Did you modify the game config file as instructed? Is the Windowed mode enabled?

When you launch the game do you see the task running in the Task Manager? Did you select the task and then click on the Switch To button? What happens?

i dont know man.... I did updated directx and changed windowed thing to 1, nothing new happend, still same problem.

its realy odd shit, i mean why the hell does the freaking monitor have to shut down xD. I actually get a picture for a few secs. then monitor shutdowns while i can hear sound. then i need to press alt + f4 to take control over the pc, but after that, the pc gets like 3 times slower, then i need to restart it. i've done this like 5-7 times now trying to fix the shit lol. its probably because i use stupid windows vista, thats all i had when i rebooted my stupid pc.