Alien Shooter: Vengaence not working

[OMEGAXOX]

Well hello



I hope you guys know of a way to make this game work cause it hasn't been working for me on window vista, I haven't tried it on windows XP



First of all when I install it, it takes ages then when I've installed it, I click on accept to make a shortcut of the game exe on the desktop and nothing happens.



So I go to programfiles to the folder where I installed the game and click on the exe of the game and it opens up a black screen and it doesn't even reach the introduction window then it automaticly closes and then an error file with this written in it appears in the game folder :

----< 2007-03-15 18:04:58 >----< C:\Program Files\Alien Shooter - Vengeance\AlienShooter.exe (Aug 10 2006 16:58:53) >----

Memory:: TotalPhys=1072627712 AvailPhys=519925760 TotalPageFile=2412257280 AvailPageFile=1520369664 TotalVirtual=2147352576 AvailVirtual=2071441408

Registry path = 'SOFTWARE\SigmaTeam\AlienShooter'

RADEON X800 PRO/GTO

Enum display modes 800x600 X8R8G8B8 D16

Enum display modes 1024x768 X8R8G8B8 D16

WM_PAINT

Selected display mode 1024x768 A8R8G8B8 desktop X8R8G8B8 zbuffer D24S8

!!!ERROR 18:05:05/0!!!GRAPH: 0x88760B59 Couldn't create the Effect

!!!ERROR 18:05:05/0!!!GRAPH: 0x88760B59 Couldn't create the Effect

Vid release (vid mem = 0)

d3dDevice release 0

d3d release 0

Thats about it, thanks in advance

[cageu]

Might be a problem with how the game installed.

Try turning off UAC and reinstall the game.





It could also be a problem with your video driver.

Do you have the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI installed?

If you haven't already try running it as an administrator.

Just right click on the game executable and click on

Run as Administrator. You can also try running it in compatibility

mode. Right click on the exe and click properties. Click on the

compatibility tab and set it to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode.

Also click the box to run as administrator.

[OMEGAXOX]

Well the installation of the game is normal cause of the primitivity of the makers of this game I suppose.

I've never seen any game installation using .vid extension that take altogether 1 hour to extract on to my computer thats why I find it primitive from its makers.



Anyways, about the UAC well I've turned it off from the day I got Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, I haven't tried though installing any video driver for my computer because its only been like a month since I've installed my latest driver but I'll try.



About the game exe's properties, the compatibility tab is already set to XP SP2 compatibility mode but the only thing that I haven't been able to do, is clicking on the box to run as administrator cause its gray and I'm not able to get a check mark on it, is there a way to manually activate an option allowing me to check mark on the Run as administrator box?



Thanks again

[cageu]

Anyways, about the UAC well I've turned it off from the day I got Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, I haven't tried though installing any video driver for my computer because its only been like a month since I've installed my latest driver but I'll try.

The latest driver from ATI is Catalyst 7.2 released at the end of February.

They will likely be releasing 7.3 in the next couple of weeks.



You can get Catalyst 7.2 here.

About the game exe's properties, the compatibility tab is already set to XP SP2 compatibility mode but the only thing that I haven't been able to do, is clicking on the box to run as administrator cause its gray and I'm not able to get a check mark on it, is there a way to manually activate an option allowing me to check mark on the Run as administrator box?



Thanks again

Are you an administrator on your computer? If you are and you have already disabled UAC

then the run as administrator option does not apply. Since UAC is off Vista runs everything

with admin privileges as long as your user account is an administrator.