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I'm running a Dell Dimension 8400
-think it's XP Home or Pro
-P4, 3.2 (3.4?) GHz
-1.5 Gb ram
-GeForce 6600 video card
-Audigy 2ZS sound card


Installed DS2 and I see sound and video when I start up the game until it gets to what I assume is the first menu screen, where I only hear sound but have a black screen. I have to force-quit the application to get out of it. If I try to 'Esc' out of what I call the 'promo' screens prior to the menu screen, the game can crash. What's going on & how can I fix this? I have no problem running Doom3 on vitually the bleeding-edge settings! I wouldn't think I would have any issues with this one.

Do I need to update drivers for video card (which I went to Nvidia's site for), update DirectX, or load the patch for this game? Any suggestions would be a great help!!!

What makes this really annoying is that the 'family' computer (Dell Dimension 2400!!) w/768Mb Ram and an ATI 9250 video card w/'native' soundcard can run this game w/no problems! Oh, and my setup is not connected to the internet, so I have to use a flesh memory device to port any patches, etc. to my machine.

I've got an Nvidia card and I'm using version 78.01 of their drivers without any problems in Dungeon Seige 2. So give them a try!

Do you have a firewall?

When it starts up, the game seemed to try and connect to the internet (for me). I immediately denied it - I only let things connect when I want them to. But the game seemed to hang, sound still played. Eventually the menu came up, but this would happen each time I started up. I changed my firewall settings to allow the process to connect and the menu would appear straight away.

Hope this helps.

((possible spoiler for "???" quest))

thanks for getting back to me.... appears that loading those new drivers worked out great! just finished mercenary mode - man, is this a time sink! even got through the "???" quest. the payoff was quite strange, for that one... although, there is this magically shut door at the end (after the pillow fight) that i can't figure how to open. maybe i missed a thread where this was discussed?