Posted April 17, 2020
xaneks: i suspect it has to do with my wireless keyboard and reprogrammable mouse, on top of my pc being too powerful to run it
Thanks for the info. I sent email to the one programmer about this. When I will obtain answer, I will write it here. One more: try this patch.
I saw in its description that this patch solves crash at the start. Good opportunity to check this.
QWEEDDYZ: Try to disable any USB controllers - except normal wired KB+mouse (again, no tool and no drivers must be running, it not requred for PnP controllers, even if KB have some additional function buttons) - and check if game starts.
Disable\close ATI Tray, MSI Afterburner, Nvidia GeForce Experience (better delete this) - any like that. Disable any controllers (\macros) tools, not matter Razer, A4tech, SteelSeries or Logitek or any else that chinese broken drivers-tools (for example: LogiOptions.exe, part of Logitech drivers for keyboards/mice). Ofc disable DEP at all. Disable or maybe delete antivirus (most of free and some of paid - just trash).
Nice set of suggestions. Thanks. Disable\close ATI Tray, MSI Afterburner, Nvidia GeForce Experience (better delete this) - any like that. Disable any controllers (\macros) tools, not matter Razer, A4tech, SteelSeries or Logitek or any else that chinese broken drivers-tools (for example: LogiOptions.exe, part of Logitech drivers for keyboards/mice). Ofc disable DEP at all. Disable or maybe delete antivirus (most of free and some of paid - just trash).
QWEEDDYZ: SRHook (from wrace aka hate_gog) for SR1 - if nothing help. but must work without any of this, or any of DxWnd\degeVoodoo\.etc.
Exactly, SRHook is not my patch + it can't solve any problems. (It just provides WideScreen Support and uncap of framerate).
Support of Windowed Mode for SR1 was created by Vampmaster and was added into 2 patches (his own and my one), so now DxWnd is not needed (moreover there was problem with finding stable version of this program).
My patch is here (SR1_Patch124.zip).
For non-Steam users only part of fixes are available (all excepting new Sound / Achievements / Subtitles Engines).