failure to load (non modded)

[Rust_Lord]

Hi guys
I got my laptop back with a new HDD put in after the old one (ripe old age of 1) died. I installed EaW and obviously havent put any mods on. When I go to run it, it does nothing. It will not load; won't even go to the launch menu. I have reinstalled it and still nothing. I have attempted to run it in safe mode and it seems to load but obviously, since no drivers get loaded in safe mode it can't actually get into the game.

I have not had any problems with EaW at all before and nothing else is giving me dramas since the new HDD has gone in...

Any ideas, other than a re-format?

Cheers

Have you tried other games first? Is yr drive all wired up correctly?

DMUK

[Rust_Lord]

Yeah everything else works fine. I am running Kaspersy anti-virus but I dont think that is an issue because it is not an issue of getting online or anything; i double click the short cut on the desktop and it does nothing. Drivers and direct X are both fine but it doesnt want to run. I will prolly have to refortmat which is a shame because it took days to reinstall and setup everything again.

You wont need a re-format. Please post your dxdiag - Remember as well to ensure that your direct x is totally bang up to date (grab it from the EaW disc to start, then download the new one)

[Rust_Lord]

Yeah all that is cool...my DX version is 9.0c. The safedisk launch analysis wont work because it just doesnt run. I tried something tricky though and I used a 1.03 no cd crack and it launches from that application but the game plays as 1.05. Bizaare.