Game Instantly Crashes
 

I just bought the download version of the game and my activation code worked fine, but I can't get it to run.. I read through all of these posts and found several other people receiving the same error, but because they had old machines, but mine should definitely be able to handle this game.. Any help would be really appreciated! I just tried running the demo instead and received the exact same error.

Error message:

.\.BMRender\rmode.cpp(1583): DirectX call failed: -1, -1,D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (The method call is invalid. For example, a method's parameter may not be a valid pointer)

My computer:

Windows Vista Home Premium
AMD Phenom 9500 - quad core 2200mhz
3 gig RAM
DirectX 9c (also tried 10)
ATI Radeon HD 3650 - 1 gig built in memory

Full version game crashes
 

The demo worked ok for me..

This is what happens when running the full version.

http://s400.photobucket.com/albums/p...rrent=fail.jpg

hey guys its me again i thought my problem with video card and i now thinking too boy new one wich one off this will work fine for the game NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 6200 or NVIDIA GEFORCE 7600 GS witch one is beter ?

I'm having the same issue. Tried reinstalling, loading newest video card drivers, loading DirectX 9c and 10. My graphics card should definitely be able to handle the game..

support didn't tell you anything?

Just got to done with Kranken and James, Mirabella is crashing me as well. Is this a known bug? Russian version have the same? Admin?

Same Mirabella issue here. Atari downloaded version as well, not sure if that matters.

Here is a SS of the reply selected which results in a crash to desktop (no error). After killing James and Kraken.

http://www.chrisknox.com/mirabella_crash.jpg

also try getting latest version of directx

that's what he did

Both of them are terrible for games, but if you like torturing yourself instead of spending a mere $150 on an nVidia 8800GT/9800GTX or Ati HD4850 card that would run the game excellently, then the 7600GS would be a marginally better choice.