help getting star wolves 3 started

[dalaughinman]

i just reinstalled sw3 on my tower after upgrading to win8 but i keep getting a c++ runtime error. ive looked up quite a lot of information but very little of it seems to be what i need so if anyone knows whats wrong or how to fix it please let me know.

also before the simple questions, yes i have all the dx9-11 or whatever installs on here(both x86 and X64) this is the only game i have problems with. i have all the .dll files i need as far as i know. never had this problem on win7 before or after my tower upgrade only since i put win8 on it last month. yes ive tried a clean install of the game, several in fact.

ill post any other information you may need just let me know, thanks