Sins won't launch

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Just downloaded and installed Sins.

Running Vista Ultimate on DELL 9400 Dual Core 2GHz with 2GB RAM, nVidia GeForce GO 7900 GS 256MB Dedicated Video Memory and 256 MB Shared Video Memory.

I've changed the properties to run as Administrator and turned off Visual Themes, Desktop Compostition and Display Scaling on High DPI Settings.

Not using Sidebar or Aero.

Please give me some ideas on my next steps to get Sins to run.

Thanks
Phill
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

What comes up when you try to run? If you jump into the sins irc channel someone can likely help you one on one if you come at the right time. Join irc.stardock.com and then "/join #sins".

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I get a black screen that minimises and dumps me back to the desktop. When I alt-tab back to Sins I get the same black screen and it dumps me back to the desktop again. I have to kill the app via Task Manager.

Unfortunately I can't jump onto the IRC Channel as I'm at work. I'll try and get on tonight. In the meantime is there anything you can suggest before I get online?

Thanks
Phill
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Sure. First, please send your minidump file and dxdiag output to [email protected]. While we look at that stuff, try disabling movies first. Then try dropping your multisampling to 0. Then try it in windowed mode.

These are all values that can be changed in user.setting which can be opened by notepad and are in:

XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\
Vista: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\

Dump is in \Minidump and user.setting is in \Setting.

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Sorry for the delay in replying.

Been a little busy trying to fit in work and game playing   

After turning of the intro movies the game launched successfully. Although, the next time I started the game the intro movie played. I checked the settings file and it was back to TRUE. So I can only surmise that on the first launch there is some system checking going on that my PC didn't like.