I had hour after long and lonely hour of CTDs. I'm on nvidia 8600 gts and acer 22 inch on xp sp2. But after trying EVERYTHING that was posted on the internets I'm finally able to get it to run.
What I'm still calling a CTD is actually the message "Can not initialize 3d engine" ever since applying the Microsoft Compatibility Administrator.
My native res is 1920 x 1080, and a launch with d3d9.dll WILL ctd with that monitor resolution, even if i hang my monitor off the power pole and balance it on an bar magnet while the natives do a hula dance.
The best I can do is to change the resolution to 1600 x 900 and set the ini to the same. Then BAM... the 3d views are amazing. Sweeeeet! The aspect ratio on the 2d views are great, too, but of course I'm geeked because the height is wrong, as you'd expect. Unfortunately, I also CTD at every setting with a height of 768 unless the width is 1024.
It appears my only choice is 1600 x 900.
I went in and scaled periscope.tga to the "proper" size, but I was puzzled that the periscope view was still the same size, although the buttons had all become larger, and were now all scrunched up together and overlapping.
I still don't know diddly squat, but I'm happy to have some progress. I guess this'll give me something to do for a while.
