Ashikaider

looks like it worked. The game finally works. Thanks.

Here's my dxdiag;

I've un- and reinstalled the game repeatedly, I've updated the NET framework to version 4, but every time I hit the play button, I get a wallpaper image, and the computer pretty much freezes up. I can get the mouse pointer to move, but it disappears around the game logo, and I can't alt-tab out or get cntrl-alt-dlt to shut down the game. I'm pretty much forced to reboot the game at this point. Any idea of what might be wrong?

it took some doing, but I got past that question and have a forum account now.