The game keeps crashing halfway through the progress-bar at "Initializing world".
This is a bizare problem. I have SL working fine at home, many people I know have. But we tend to stay late and game at the office, so we wanted to install there too. We tried all of the following configurations, but couldn't get the darn thing to work:
- Dell Optiplex GX280, P4 2GHz, 1GB ram, Ati 9800pro, lastest drivers/bios on winxp sp2
- Dell Optiplex GX280, P4 3.2GHz, 1GB ram, Ati X700, latest drivers on winxp sp2
- Dell something, P4 something, 512MB ram, nVidia 4400Ti, latest drivers on winxp sp2
BUT
+ The game does seem to work fine on the office Apple G5 PowerMac
So it's not the firewall perse.
Other games and even Battlefield 2 works fine, there's no terribly restrictive firewall and opengl applications like Lightwave also work hardware accellerated on at least the first 2 machines.
Is this some wierd DELL, thing? Anyone?