Demigod not starting

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I'm running Windows XP SP2.

Demigod just doesn't start. This is quite distressing, since I was in the beta and that worked just fine. Here's basically what happens: I double click the executable (or run from impulse, it doesn't matter) and the mouse turns into an hourglass for all of one tenth of a second, after which nothing happens. I've even had the task manager up to see if I might spot something there. Nothing. Demigod.exe shows up in the processes list for just the briefest interval before it disappears (sometimes windows doesn't even think about it long enough for this occur).

I'm not really sure what's happening. I tell windows to run it, but then it seems to go "nah, I don't feel like," and then shrugs it off like a flea bite. It's like windows is ignoring it or something.

I have more than enough RAM (4 gigs), processor power (3.1 Ghz dual core), and two GeForce 8600 GTS's, so this isn't a minimum requirements thing. What on Earth is going on? I bought this game, I played the beta without any problems, but now I can't even start the program! Argh!

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I am having the exact same problem.  I have managed to start the game a few times by spamming the "Run" button in impulse.  After 50 or 60 "games played" have incremented, I will get either an error message saying that it can't allocate the thread, or, the game launches.  It's a really unpredictable process, and I only have about a 60% success rate with the button-spamming-to-launch.  Once the game launches, it works great.

I've tried disabling all of the background processes that are optional or potentially intrusive (antivirus, daemontools, dropbox, etc) but that doesn't seem to make any difference.  I have validated the install using impulse, and it says the install is clean.  I have tried running the exectuable directly, same behavior.  I have tried creating a shortcut with the commandline option /windowed 1024 768 but it also had the same launch behavior.

I am running Windows XP SP3, 2G RAM, AMDX2-3800+, DirectX 9.0c, GeForce 9800 GTX+, Vid Driver Version 6.14.0011.8250

If there is any additional debugging information you need (if there are any command-line flags for verbose mode), let me know.

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