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I seem to have found a solution of a kind. kryo's post reminded me of when X3 wasn't working and for some reason I had to roll back my video card drivers. So I rolled them back to oldest available archived drivers on nvidia's website. And the game worked! Once. Then it was back to not working for some reason in the exact same way. So I reinstalled the old drivers. And it worked again. So it seems that the game will work. And when I can't start it, which will be often,

So I ran dxdiag. The program itself says no problems found. Here's the report. [spoiler] ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 5/11/2013, 12:11:07 Machine name: FRY-HP Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard System Model: h8-1220 BI

I purchased the game a few days ago from steam and it wouldn't run at all. No notice or anything. I uninstalled it. Downloaded the game from Stardock directly. Game still doesn't run. No "has stopped working" notice. I've tried updating my graphics drivers, using a activation file overwrite, running it in administrator mode; Nothing has worked thus far. When I run it with Task Manager open, the exe shows up for about a second taking up between 9 and 12 K of memory. Then stops. I&#