<t> Adding headphones/speakers didn't work.<br/>
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What DID work was rolling back my system to Windows 8, installing the game, successfully running it, and THEN installing Windows 8.1 - tested this on my laptop, and it worked there too.<br/>
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And btw, the game is totally worth the ...

Removed headphones/speakers (to include disconnecting soundcard) with no luck. I also tried installing/running on my laptop that has a fresh Windows 8 install with updates to 8.1, and am having the same problem.

Admin account, have tried installing in multiple locations on C as well as a partition, and have even redownloaded the installer - no luck.

I am as well.

No luck - file checker came back with one mismashed hash, so I replaced it with a version from another PC, and now it says I'm good, but game still doesn't run...

I'll give that a try now, and see what comes of it.

The installer I got from Matrix Games never prompted for drx9, or anything else.

And screenshot.

Attached dxdiag.

Whenever I attempt to launch the game from the autorun launcher, nothing happens... doesn't matter if I run as admin or not.

Also, if I attempt to launch the game directly, it just gives me a memory error and closes immediately.

Windows 8, AMD GPU, 12 Gigs of ram.