immediate crash to desktop on fresh install

[Irimi-Ai]

Hi all,

 

Love XWA and decided to try the XWAUP. Haven't had this game installed in years. Tried to install it today and am running into problems. I install the stock version (mine is already updated to 2.02). I have done no editing, cracking, or any other modifications whatsoever...this is straight out of the box. As soon as I try to launch the game, the screen goes black for a second as the graphics rendering kicks in, and then crash to desktop. It's not even initializing the game (i.e., the CFG file only reads "lastpilot Ace Azzameen").

 

Things I have tried so far:

• 
  -Searching this forum and the web for resolutions to similar issues
  -Reimer's xwahacker.exe and fixedclear.bat solution
  -setting xwingalliance.exe to run in win 98, NT, and 2000 compatibility modes
  -setting my anti-virus to exclude xwingalliance.exe
  -Reimer's 16 & 32 bit .bat files
  -created graphics driver profile for xwingalliance.exe with following settings:
  
  • 
    -Anistropic filtering: Off
    -Antialiasing gamma correction: Off
    -Antialiasing setting: None
    -Antialiasing transparency: Off
    -Conformant texture clamp: use hardware
    -Extension limit: On
    -Force mipmaps: None
    -Maximum pre-rendered frames: 2
    -Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: Single display
    -Texture filtering - anistropic mip filter optimization: Off
    -Texutre filtering - anistropic sample optimization: Off
    -Texture filtering - negative LOD bias: Allow
    -Texture filtering - quality: Quality
    -Texture filtering - trilinear optimization: On
    -Triple buffering: Off
    -Vertical sync: Force on
    

 

System specs:

Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+

2 GB RAM

DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (Driver Version: 6.14.0011.8585 | 4/30/2009)

Desktop resolution 1024x768

 

Please help!

[Wildstar]

I've seen your post on the XWA Upgrade forums...I don't have a clue about this, but someone there might.