CmlDexter

I found that the problem is made by 3 creative procceses that run on my PC. these processes came with my pc cuz my laptop's sound card has eax 4.0 support. any way to get around these processes rather than killing them?

Ok, well its good that you got it started. Next we need to get you optimized for Win7 and Sacred2. Check these topics here on the site as many of us have been banging our heads on this. Switching to Win7 64 Optimizations for Win7 New Rig Crashing I will tell you from fist hand experience that if you have a Nvidia GFX card you need to disable PhysX in yourNvidia control panel and check your 3D settings. I run with as many setting as possible set to hardware control and turned off in the game options. I also have a i5 quad with a GTX260 GPU. I have 8Gb of ram and run no page file. with 4 GB I still think you can do this. Sacred rarely uses more than 1.5Gb If you gave Antivirus and other TSR programs running in your systray you may consider closing them as I think they rob sys priority away from Sacred2 and all the wrong moments After trying a few of these suggestions please let us know how you are doing Also make sure that you don't conflict the ingame settings for video with the Nvidia settings in the Nvidia control panel. You prabably don't have Elite GFX so that should not be an issue. The game runs if I disable every startup app. I still have yet to find the app that is conflicting with sacred 2. The game always get stuck on the "SETUP MANAGERS" phase of the game I have trend micro anti virus (came included with my laptop 1 year sub and it does its job) and xfire (heard on a forum that its conflictive with sacred 2) and still no game working any apps that you guys know that it makes the game unstable?

Finally! the game worked! all I needed was to add compabilty mode XP service pack 3 and run as admin thx for the link!

Well I checked the page file and is in 4000MB so it cant be that. Im getting slow downs occasioanlly and then after 5 or 6 of these slow downs of sound and framerate the game crashes itself with no error message.

Well, I get the splash screen and then I get an error message from windows. Ill post a pic soon thanks for the reply! apparently game runs now. I disabled all the startup apps but im getting slow downs all the time and crashes gonna try increasing the page file

Well, I get the splash screen and then I get an error message from windows. Ill post a pic soon thanks for the reply!

I bought my new gaming laptop. Is an ASUS G51J It has: Core i7 720qm 4GB DDR3 1333MHZ GTX 260M 1GB DDR3 Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Game wont start. I have reinstalled and everything but the game simply wont start. It just launches the start screen and thats it. Please I bought this game right before the company died US version and havent been able to enjoy it one bit