SL crashes at Hardware Detection.

I've been running SL on my Mac for a couple of months now with out any problems, So I decided I'd put it on the PC so I can play on the big screen..

Problem is, It just won't run.. It bombs out at the hardware detection, I've not had any problems with any other games, It's just SL

The PC is a 3.2Ghz P4 with HT in a Shuttle XPC (SB83G5M) with an ATI X800 PCI-Express gfx card, 1GB Ram and a 200GB HDD

The machine was running Windows XP Pro, but I've just reinstalled it with Windows XP Media Centre as a last resort and it still bombs in exactly the same way.. I've done all the system tests I can think of including memtest86 and it's passed all of them..

Any ideas??? As it's the best spec machine in the house I'd really like to get it running on it.

Thanks

I had that problem last night, too. After installing the update, it ran fine the first time, then when I tried to start it, it would bomb at the hardware detection phase. I tried clearing the Cache, the log files, even the user settings, but that didn't help. I finally just uninstalled SL, and reinstalled from the downloaded update file in the \documents and settings\<user>\local settings\temp folder, or downloading it again from the SL site.

Hope someone can clear up this issue soon!

No ideas anyone??

How about this then I just tried the 1.9 preview.. It ran once.. I changed a few settings that required a restart and now if bombs the same as 1.8.. That's the only time I've -ever- had SL run on the PC.. It's a pain cus now I know how fast it runs :|

As before It bombs at hardware detection..

Do you have QuickTime installed on your PC? I watched it crash on a friend of mines each time he tried to luanch it untill he installed QT7.

Also, in your BIOS make sure VGA Palet Snoop is off, and try turning on 2x anti aliasing on your ATI Card. Its what I had to do on a PC to get it to run with an ATI X1800XL Card before. Also turn off the Catalyst AI it can cause issues.

Yeah, I use iTunes to listen to music from the Mac so QuickTime 7 is on.. Snoop is off and tried all sorts of settings in the control panel after trying your recommendation of 2xAA and disabled Catalyst AI..

Grr, This is so frustrating..

Can you post your DxDiag file? (Start--->Run---> type in dxdiag ---> click save all info)

There might be something in there I could see that could be a cuse.

Well, That's interesting.. DXDiag bombed on DXInput .. So I thought what could cause that.. I unplugged a little HID box that controls my satellite box and it's all working..

Quite why that would cause problems I don't know.. Oh well..


Thanks for your help It got me there