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Absolutely nothing thus far has worked. So I tried the repair option from Windows XP Setup (not recovery console, this is when you're about to format the drive and it asks you if you want to repair the volume), and now the game works.

Who knows what else is broken now, though. oh well.

Adam

Does your copy of puresim baseball also work? If so, then I definately feel it was a Windows problem. I would like very much to find out what caused this on the one or two machines that people have been reporting it on, but without having those machines at my disposal that's pretty much impossible (especially after they've been fixed). For now, the only known solution is to do what you have done. Which so far, has worked on both the problematic machines.

[font="verdana"]Somehow I knew you'd ask that.  I had deleted the PureSim demo it a few days ago.  I'll try it tonight and let you know what I find out.  I'm willing to bet it works fine.  It sure looks like a Windows problem to me, since only a handful of people seem to be experiencing it.

What would really be interesting is to know exactly which files were missing or corrupt.  I went through MDAC checker and DLL Dump hell for an hour.  MDAC checker didn't really find any errors; just a couple mismatched files.  Also a registry entry which was missing altogether.  Replacing the mismatched files didn't help, and as soon as I replaced them with the correct versions, XP wanted to download an update presumably to roll them forward again.

Keep in mind that I didn't exactly re-install the whole OS - I repaired it.  It takes just as long as a standard XP install, about 30 minutes on a decent machine.  This is only available on XP as far as I know.  All it seems to do is re-install the core OS files, but I can't guarantee that it won't completely hose anyone's machine.
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[font="verdana"]The PureSim 2007 demo works fine now.

Adam
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Cool.

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Absolutely nothing thus far has worked. So I tried the repair option from Windows XP Setup (not recovery console, this is when you're about to format the drive and it asks you if you want to repair the volume), and now the game works.

Who knows what else is broken now, though. oh well.

Adam

When you do this, does this mean you have reformat the hard drive and erase everything? Because Ive had this porblem as well and I really don't want to lose everything on my computer.

I didn't re-format my hard drive. I just re-installed XP over the version that was there (with whatever was corrupted), and everything came out fine. All of my settings and applications remained intact.

The only downside that I encountered was having to re-download and re-install the dozens of updates to XP that had been issued since the my XP installation CD had been created. That took approx. 4 hours (with a 56K modem).

Windows get corrupted from time to time.  Even Microsoft recommend re-installing the operating system from time to time, but it is a pain in the butt to do it with all of the updates.

I had ordered the digital download + the Shipped CD. When the CD came, I unistalled the digital download version and installed from the CD and everything seems to work. Apparantly, the problem was with the download version. Thought you may like to know.

Hmm.. that's a bit strange... we'll look into it.