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Hi there. I write here as I'm quite stumped. Giants wouldn't even launch for me. I read those threads here complaining about graphical issues, but didn't see such a problem mentioned.
And the problem is that upon launching the game I get a black screen and the game freezes and I have to do a hard reboot as I can't even Alt+Ctrl+Del out of it.
I tried to launch vanilla game, I tried to update it with GRM and Geforce3 patches, I tried to just install 1.497F patch, no cake.
I updated both DirectX and video drivers and tried to use compatibility mode. Nope.
So has anybody any ideas. I send a question to GOG support but it's already 2 weeks and no answer.

P.S. I'm running Windows XP SP 32-bit on Athlon 64 3500+ and with Radeon X800GT video card. Yeah, an old rig but this is good old games. Everything here should run on it.
This question / problem has been solved by beliarimage
It seems that no one encountered the problem like me or at least didn't write it here. After long and arduous months I myself found it. As I said in the previous post, I got a black screen with a mouse cursor upon launching and couldn't do anything short of a hard reboot.
Well, today I decided to run the game in window mode by adding -window to the target field of a shortcut. The game ran and I created my own Player's ID. I exited the game and launched it again this time in full screen and what do you say... it ran perfectly. Strange, but I'm happy I finally got it up and running.
Post edited May 31, 2011 by jurijchrul
thx for your solution! i had this problem too.