I was stuck like many others here with ABOSOLUTELY nothing fixing the Initialization problem. However, my computer inept Wife found a solution that worked! I have a Raedon X700 and DFI Athlon 64 mobo/cpu combo. I'm running WinXP Pro with service packs.
She went into the control panel and clicked on the DirectX options. For some unknown reason a little check box in the Direct3D tab was unchecked that said Hardware Acceleration. I clicked it and the game worked?! That seems odd since I was able to play Doom3 and Halflife 2 during the same day with no changes. BUT CHECK YOUR CONTROL PANEL DIRECTX options if you've tried everything else and CLICK ACCELERATION!
Well, hope this works for more people than just me. I also hope that the programmers can solve this problem in the future. I hate reinstalling drivers I know already work just to fix a problem.
-CrazyBS
She went into the control panel and clicked on the DirectX options. For some unknown reason a little check box in the Direct3D tab was unchecked that said Hardware Acceleration. I clicked it and the game worked?! That seems odd since I was able to play Doom3 and Halflife 2 during the same day with no changes. BUT CHECK YOUR CONTROL PANEL DIRECTX options if you've tried everything else and CLICK ACCELERATION!
Well, hope this works for more people than just me. I also hope that the programmers can solve this problem in the future. I hate reinstalling drivers I know already work just to fix a problem.
-CrazyBS