Technical Problem with "Vampyre Story"

[Stephan_G]

Hi!

I bought the game yesterday and wanted to install and play this evening - intallation was no problem - but everytime I start the game it crashes with the error-message: main.exe doesnt work anymore bzw. main.exe funktioniert nicht mehr"...

Anyone that has the same problem - and can help?

My system:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2,20 Ghz
2039 MB Ram
Onboard Intel Graphic (latest driver)
Vista Ultimate 32 Bit

Thank you!

[ecpyrosis]

have you tried right clicking on the programm and then pick 'run as admin'?

[Jappie26]

I have the same problem with the demo.... Really having doubts now about buying this game. ;(

[JackVanian]

Stephan, did you install the Direct X version that came with the game?
No matter what type of direct x installation you´ve got already, you should install the direct x package that comes with the game ( just in case you didn´t do it).

[Stephan_G]

Hi!

Thanks for your answers! Yes, I installed directX that came with the game and I also tried to run it as administrator...still the same...

Even called the technical support - can tell yo: save your money, they have no idea what to do (or shoul I say "what they are doing?" ;) ).

Some more suggestions or ideas?

[Jonatan]

I saw a guy with the same problem somewhere, he just ran as Administrator and changed the compatibility settings(can't remember what to) and it worked.

[Stephan_G]

Thats what I tried. too...started as administrator with and without xp compatibility-mode = still the same f...ing problem... I start to get a bit angry because a) I want to play :) b) paid good money for the game and c) the support cant help (and is expensive - 1 Euro per minute!)

[Dale Baldwin]

Which Intel graphics adapter to you have?

I just tried it on my work laptop, which only has a 945 Express (GMA 950), and the game would not work, crashing at startup.

[Stephan_G]

It is an Intel 82945G Express Chip - I really could understand if crisis or another shooter would crash...but not an adventure. The chip should have enough power for it I think

[Stephan_G]

Tried to install it on the laptop of my brother - same problem. Must have something to do with vista I guess...

[Ripper]

First of all:

JESUS FU**EN CHRIST!


Everybody is having problems to run the Demo and the Full Version of this game.


And i'm one of them.


I fixed that problem with the Demo this way:


Download Win2000 Launcher 1.5.2 here:


http://majorgeeks.com/Win2000_Launcher_d438.html


Run the program, and add main.exe inside "game" directory.


Multiple processors users (SMP)


Mark only this option:


Processor 1


The Demo works fine this way. And i even have a playlist on YouTube to prove it:


http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F6FC3063E64D166F

[Stephan_G]

Thats why I prefer playing on my xbox 360 - just wanted to have a classic adventure and bought avs...

[Stephan_G]

Doesnt work for me with win2000 launcher :(

[Ripper]

Onboard Intel Graphic (latest driver)


Is that enough to run the game?

Maybe you need a more powerful video card.

[Dale Baldwin]

Onboard Intel Graphic (latest driver)

Is that enough to run the game?
In this case, I don't think it is, no.

[Sconsc]

I also have a technical problem with the game and since the official forums don't work yet I thought I might get some help here. My problem contains slight spoilers:
After leaving the castle and getting sent by the gypsy to get my coffin if I try to go back to the gypsy a movie starts playing but it has no sound, i tried viewing it outside the game and it still has no sound, the movie is called SQ11, all other movies have sound. Any idea why this happens? This wouldn't be that big a problem except the movies aren't subtitled.
One other thing, where are the saves in vista?

[Stephan_G]

Onboard Intel Graphic (latest driver)


Is that enough to run the game?

Maybe you need a more powerful video card.

Ok, would agree if I wanted to play a shooter - but this is an adventure... Its a shame that the support cant help and that the official forum is down and there is no reaction from the publisher - think there are some people with (same or not) problems to get this game running...

And I was so happy to get a good old classic adventure... ;(

[Radott]

Duo2core 3ghz 4gb ram geforce 8800gtx 768mb windows vista ultimate 64bit .

No bugs crashes nothing . Only when i exit the game from main menu im getting main.exe error and it closed down the main.exe
But it dosent make problems for the game .

Great game ! Game of the year . Im using the retail full version of the game .

[olechrw]

Onboard Intel Graphic can't run it. It may not be Crysis but the visuals of a vampyre story are beautiful. Its really a great game. So don't blame the game when its your computer's fault;)

[Bevito]

Hi,

The problem is, that, for example on focus french forum, there is a thread about the minimum hardware needed :

CONFIGURATION MINIMALE REQUISE

WINDOWS XP/VISTA
PENTIUM4 1.6GHZ/ATHLONXP 1600+
512 MO DE MEMOIRE RAM
CARTE GRAPHIQUE 256 MO 100% COMPATIBLE DIRECTX 9.0
(NVIDIA GEFORCE FX/ATI RADEON 9500/INTEL GMA X3000 OU SUPERIEUR)*
LECTEUR DVDROM 2X
3 GO D'ESPACE DISQUE DUR
CARTE SONORE COMPATIBLE DIRECTX 9.0

*AUTRES CONTROLEURS GRAPHIQUES INTEL, SIS ET VIA/S3G NON SUPPORTES

As you see, Intel GMA X3000 or more should work. It's quite strange, i can run Red Alert 3 (yes it's true, it runs but not with high quality) but i can't run a vampyre story.

[Jonatan]

I'm for one is glad that adventuregames are taking the step up on hardwarespecs. This is 2008 and it's only natural that adventuregames should evolve in this department as well.

[Ascovel]

Does anyone have problems with specific 3D objects sometimes choosing to float in the air? Also, from time to time some of the animations of the characters don't play out, but at the next attempt, they do normally. Yet the most crazy thing that I experienced was Mona walking on the picture of the newt - and it happened each time I looked at it.

[MoonBird]

The demo doesn't work. Every time I try to start it, it crashes back to desktop without any kind of error message.

Edit: Managed to run it at last... (honestly, I didn't change a thing, it just started... weird!) And i liked the demo. Kind of reminded me about The Curse of Monkey Island. Perhaps the only thing that annoyed me, was the rolling subtitles, and animations didn't contain subtitles at all. I can't help but wonder, why it's so damn difficult to make decent subtitles.

[Stephan_G]

I'm for one is glad that adventuregames are taking the step up on hardwarespecs. This is 2008 and it's only natural that adventuregames should evolve in this department as well.

I am sorry, dont want to argue with you, just discuss... :) But I cant find your point - why is it a good thing that games that naturally DONT have such hardware requirements as 3D-games like shooter or sport-simulations or whatever should raise up their specs in hardware? Is it a sign for a good/new game when you need a rocket under your desktop? Dont think so - and I was so happy when AVS came out - also for the reason that it IS a classic-like game (even if the graphics are smooth and well painted). I would say that the quality of a game should not be represented by its hardware-specs...sorry.

And ok, I am normally an Xbox360-gamer - also because I dont want/cant spend my money for a new pc every four months.

[Drawken]

Both the demo and the full game just drop me right back to the desktop telling me "main.exe has encountered a problem and needs to shut down." On further investigation I found out the file "libpandadx9.dll" in the game directory is creating the problem.

I tried renaming the file for both the demo and full game.
The demo works, but it skips all the videos.
When I tried renaming it for the full game I hear the music and sounds of the intro logo, then it goes to the menu screen. But once I click "NEW GAME" the screen stays black. Nothing.

I already installed the DirectX that was included with the game, but I tried installing the latest version anyway, like someone suggested.
After it was finished installing, I saw that "libpandadx9.dll" was still renamed, so I renamed it back to its original name.

I double clicked "main.exe" having little hope, and lo and behold it worked! The Logo movies were shown. i clicked "NEW GAME" and I watched the intro movies. Everything was working just fine. I saw that anti-alias was set at "0" so I set it to "4", reset the game, and it didn't work after that.

/\ I had a revelation after writing that just now /\
Now, what was different about when the game worked and when it didn't?
*ding ding ding*
*Goes to reset Anti-alias back to "0", restarts game*
It works!!!!

So, for those having problems try renaming "libpandadx9.dll" to "libpandadx9.dll2" or whatever.
Start up the game and at the main menu put the anti-alias down to "0."
Turn off the game.
rename "libpandadx9.dll2" back to "libpandadx9.dll"
Start the game.

Hopefully this works for some of you.

[Stephan_G]

OmG! It works for me - thank you so much!!!!!

[Jonatan]

I am sorry, dont want to argue with you, just discuss... :) But I cant find your point - why is it a good thing that games that naturally DONT have such hardware requirements as 3D-games like shooter or sport-simulations or whatever should raise up their specs in hardware? Is it a sign for a good/new game when you need a rocket under your desktop? Dont think so - and I was so happy when AVS came out - also for the reason that it IS a classic-like game (even if the graphics are smooth and well painted). I would say that the quality of a game should not be represented by its hardware-specs...sorry.

And ok, I am normally an Xbox360-gamer - also because I dont want/cant spend my money for a new pc every four months.

Well, if you got the impression that I rate games by their hardware requierments you misinterpreted me. My point is, why not ask for both a good storyline and good graphics when the equipment is being made use of in every other gaming genre?

I just don't see why you would want to settle for WORSE graphics when you are offered the option of better ones? That just seems dumb to me.

And why is it natural that adventure games don't have such hardware requirements? Surely it would contribute to the gaming experience to have a gorgeously painted picture instead of low resolution polygon objects?

And every four months is a bit harsh:) AVS ran fine on my 2 year old box.

[Stephan_G]

Well, if you got the impression that I rate games by their hardware requierments you misinterpreted me. My point is, why not ask for both a good storyline and good graphics when the equipment is being made use of in every other gaming genre?

I just don't see why you would want to settle for WORSE graphics when you are offered the option of better ones? That just seems dumb to me.

And why is it natural that adventure games don't have such hardware requirements? Surely it would contribute to the gaming experience to have a gorgeously painted picture instead of low resolution polygon objects?

And every four months is a bit harsh:) AVS ran fine on my 2 year old box.

Ok every four months is harsh, you are right :) And of course it would be great if there would be adventures that are trying to get the last drop of the system and would blow us away with bombastic graphics and evolutionary gameplay. THEN I would agree that a good/high-end system is worth the money. But there are no (not yet?!) adventures like that. Perhaps I am a bit old-fashioned - still happy with adventures like Monkey 3, Baphomets Fluch 1+2 or AVS - which works for me, now! :D

But I got you point now - misinterpreted the first post, sorry :)

[EagleFlyFree]

So, for those having problems try renaming "libpandadx9.dll" to "libpandadx9.dll2" or whatever.
Start up the game and at the main menu put the anti-alias down to "0."
Turn off the game.
rename "libpandadx9.dll2" back to "libpandadx9.dll"
Start the game.

Hopefully this works for some of you.

OmG! It works for me - thank you so much!!!!!

I have the same problem (in XP), and in my case it's probably due to the DirectX 9 requirement. I have an old Nvidia card that doesn't fully support DirectX 9. With this solution I manage to start and play a portion of the demo, but it crashes again later on.

Regarding Intel graphics, there are limitations that may cause problems with games:
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-011910.htm

As you see, Intel GMA X3000 or more should work.More info on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA

[sassypants]

So, for those having problems try renaming "libpandadx9.dll" to "libpandadx9.dll2" or whatever.
Start up the game and at the main menu put the anti-alias down to "0."
Turn off the game.
rename "libpandadx9.dll2" back to "libpandadx9.dll"
Start the game.

Hopefully this works for some of you.

Drawken...thanks so much for this...it worked!!!

Usually when I get a crash, I don't find a resolution, when I do find one, it is a process. This was easy, and worked beautifully. I did everything you said, and the game runs flawlessly(so far!) Who would of thought something so simple could do the trick. I initially thought, right...that's not going to work...too easy, but it did. So thanks for the solution!!

[starla9]

Does anyone have problems with specific 3D objects sometimes choosing to float in the air? Also, from time to time some of the animations of the characters don't play out, but at the next attempt, they do normally. Yet the most crazy thing that I experienced was Mona walking on the picture of the newt - and it happened each time I looked at it.

I've had some of those problems, the newt thing too. One time after transforming back after flying, Instead of Froderick appearing on Mona's shoulder he got stuck right in front of her chest. Another annoying thing is that even though you can skip dialogue, if there are character animations that go along with that dialogue you have to sit through them anyway, which sort of negates the point of skipping dialogue...I wish the official forums were up so we could report these little glitches.

Actually the game stopped working for me for the first time a few minutes ago (unfortunately I hadn't saved in a while). I was pouring liquids into beakers and I guess I clicked the "look" option too soon after the pouring animation (I think I was distracted by the fact that the soda cans Mona held in her hands when her arms were at her sides stayed in the same spot when she raised her arms in surprise. After using a few cans in a row she had a stack of them stuck in her hip). The game cursor disappeared, no keyboard controls worked so I couldn't exit the game. The game itself was still running fine I just couldn't do anything. Finally had to exit from Task Manager. ANNOYING.

[Ascovel]

Another annoying thing is that even though you can skip dialogue, if there are character animations that go along with that dialogue you have to sit through them anyway, which sort of negates the point of skipping dialogue...I wish the official forums were up so we could report these little glitches.

Actually the game stopped working for me for the first time a few minutes ago (unfortunately I hadn't saved in a while). I was pouring liquids into beakers and I guess I clicked the "look" option too soon after the pouring animation (I think I was distracted by the fact that the soda cans Mona held in her hands when her arms were at her sides stayed in the same spot when she raised her arms in surprise. After using a few cans in a row she had a stack of them stuck in her hip). The game cursor disappeared, no keyboard controls worked so I couldn't exit the game. The game itself was still running fine I just couldn't do anything. Finally had to exit from Task Manager. ANNOYING.

I've had all of those experiences as well.

[starla9]

It happened again. If I try to look at a beaker after successfully pouring soda into it, the game controls stop working. Different beaker, different color this time. I'm going to save right before this puzzle and hope I can complete it without "looking" at anything... :(

[Ascovel]

It happened again. If I try to look at a beaker after successfully pouring soda into it, the game controls stop working. Different beaker, different color this time. I'm going to save right before this puzzle and hope I can complete it without "looking" at anything... :(

Those beakers caused me quite a lot of frustration as well. :frusty: Just don't look at them, otherwise the area seemed safe. ;)

[2012]

So, for those having problems try renaming "libpandadx9.dll" to "libpandadx9.dll2" or whatever.
Start up the game and at the main menu put the anti-alias down to "0."
Turn off the game.
rename "libpandadx9.dll2" back to "libpandadx9.dll"
Start the game.

This worked perfectly for me! Registered just to report this and send my thanks!

Further data, in case it helps anyone:
I'm using Vista Home Premium on a laptop with the Intel on-board GMA950 (945GM) graphics adapter with a Core2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz, ie no hardware support for T&L nor vertex shaders etc.
The demo seemed to work fine for me (anti-aliasing setting was at 4, and I never changed it), but later I have understood that I was missing out on the cutscenes.
The game itself just switched resolution and then immediately crashed to desktop with a "main.exe has stopped" error as soon as I tried to start it. No other reported tricks helped (run as admin, XPSP2 compatibility mode, fiddling with DX install, and more) at all.

So let no-one tell you that this game won't run fine with a simple on-board mobile graphics adapter, just follow Drawken's workaround! :)

edit: A friend of mine with the same AVS problems with an on-board Intel mobile graphics adapter also reports success following Drawken's instructions! Free beer for Drawken!

[Leonina]

Drawken you are a genius!!! It worked! I'd love to buy u a beer =))

[chapter11studios]

I have a question about the video card requirements. The game says its minimum requirement is "256 MB video card GeForce FX-generation or ATI Radeon 9500 DirectX 9.0 compatible."

My friend has a "ATI Radeon 3450 256 MB video card supporting HDMI."

I assume this would work, but I (and she) don't know the difference between the Radeon 9500 and Radeon 3450. Are they roughly equivolent?

[JackBurtonMe]

Thanks Drawken!

[earx]

I'm for one is glad that adventuregames are taking the step up on hardwarespecs. This is 2008 and it's only natural that adventuregames should evolve in this department as well.
A 3000+ poly mesh running around on top of a 2d background and illuminated by a couple of pixel lights is hardly straining, even for something like the gma950. The gma950 actually isn't as weak as people like to think, Jade Empire runs fine on mine when I force software T&L through 3D-Analyze, well ok 15-30 fps but still.. it's way more demanding than A Vampyre Story for sure. But developers usually don't bother to support these chips even though quite a few people still have them. Too bad, in this case I think they're missing out on a fair chunk of sales because of it.

[Dale Baldwin]

Too bad, in this case I think they're missing out on a fair chunk of sales because of it.
Well, they'll get the sales if people read about the workaround in this thread, which works a treat. Hopefully AME will sort out a patch that sets the AA to 0 by default, or have it do that when it launches in retail stores (unlikely though, I'd guess).

[kasus]

Thanks Drawken (http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/member.php?u=14094).

Your workaround worked like a charm, and Im on a CPU that is below the requirements of the game. I built my machine like 5-6 years ago, it was good then, but pretty outdated now.

Windows XP Pro
2,40 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
2048 Megabytes RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 (128 MB)
Creative SB Audigy 2 Plat.
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P4S8X Motherboard

Could give some hope for some of the low end gamers out there.. :)

I 2nd. Dale's "Hopefully AME will sort out a patch that sets the AA to 0 by default" part.
Should be an easy thing to fix, if someone gives them the heads up on this...

[publicstaticvoid]

I had been running the Vampyre Story demo on my laptop using 3DAnalyze to get past the main.exe crashing to desktop, but I also was not seeing the cutscenes. I went to Binks website and downloaded the new RAD Game Tools. Now the game runs perfect, cutscenes and all on my laptop. Here are my specs

Windows XP Pro
1.60 GHZ Dual Core
1 GB of RAM
Intel 945gm express

http://www.radgametools.com/

[publicstaticvoid]

Oh I should also mention that I do not even need to use 3dAnalyze anymore, the game no longer crashes to desktop with the new RAD tools installed.

[HELPME9999]

I love how Crimson Cow is bending over backwards to help us with our problems, especially the forum that is down and all the quickfixes that dont exist.

Needless to say i have the same problem that everyone else here has, tried the quickfixes and nothing worked. I guess i'll put the game on the shelf for a month or so and then try again...

[bazookston]

you are the best!
we need more people like you in the adventure forum industry!

[2012]

So, for those having problems try renaming "libpandadx9.dll" to "libpandadx9.dll2" or whatever.
Start up the game and at the main menu put the anti-alias down to "0."
Turn off the game.
rename "libpandadx9.dll2" back to "libpandadx9.dll"
Start the game.

If somehow Drawken's workaround doesn't work for you (or seems to complicated), you could try just editing your config file and changing the anti-alias setting there.

On my (Vista) system, the file was located at "C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\A Vampyre Story\game\assets\scripts\14793.bin". On a non-Vista system I would guess at "C:\Program Files\A Vampyre Story\game\assets\scripts\14793.bin".

Then just change the line with the anti-alias level setting to 0, like this:
<option name="anti_alias_level" value="0"/>

Good luck!

[Davz]

Hi people, i also had some issues playing the game due to display and loading issues (the game kept on crashing when the first screen popped up), i emailed the customer care and this is what they replied - It worked a treat and i am now currently enjoying the game! Hope this helps!!


Please download and install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0:

1. Click http://www.filehippo.com/download_dotnet_framework_2/
2. Click Download Latest Version.
3. Save dotnetfx.exe file on the hard disk.
4. Once download done, run dotnetfx.exe and follow the instructions.

--

Please download and install the latest ATI display drivers:

1. Click http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp
2. Click Catalyst Software Suite.
3. Save 8-11_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_70226.exe application file on the hard disk.
4. Once download done, run 8-11_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_70226.exe and follow the instructions.

--

Please set the video hardware acceleration to full:

1. Click Windows XP Start button then Control Panel.
2. Double-click Display.
3. In the Settings tab, click Advanced.
4. Click the Troubleshoot tab.
5. The Hardware Acceleration must be set to Full.
6. Click OK then click OK again.
7. Follow the instructions.
8. Run A Vampyre Story.

[misslilo]

There's a patch for it now - check this thread (http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=489491&postcount=9)!

[justinslot]

Yeah....nothing works for me. Drawken's trick worked for a little while for at least loading the menu screen, but it still wouldn't actually launch the game.

I've got a few month old PC with a GeForce 9800 GT that runs Crysis fine so I don't think I have hardware performance issues. DirectX, .Net, Nividia drivers all updated to the most current versions, patch applied. I click on Vampyre Story, it does the black screen like it's about to launch, and then it goes back to the desktop. Sometimes I hear sound effects like it's running somewhere but I can't see it. It's maddening.

[youfightlikeadairyfarmer]

Both the demo and the full game just drop me right back to the desktop telling me "main.exe has encountered a problem and needs to shut down." On further investigation I found out the file "libpandadx9.dll" in the game directory is creating the problem.

I tried renaming the file for both the demo and full game.
The demo works, but it skips all the videos.
When I tried renaming it for the full game I hear the music and sounds of the intro logo, then it goes to the menu screen. But once I click "NEW GAME" the screen stays black. Nothing.

I already installed the DirectX that was included with the game, but I tried installing the latest version anyway, like someone suggested.
After it was finished installing, I saw that "libpandadx9.dll" was still renamed, so I renamed it back to its original name.

I double clicked "main.exe" having little hope, and lo and behold it worked! The Logo movies were shown. i clicked "NEW GAME" and I watched the intro movies. Everything was working just fine. I saw that anti-alias was set at "0" so I set it to "4", reset the game, and it didn't work after that.

/\ I had a revelation after writing that just now /\
Now, what was different about when the game worked and when it didn't?
*ding ding ding*
*Goes to reset Anti-alias back to "0", restarts game*
It works!!!!

So, for those having problems try renaming "libpandadx9.dll" to "libpandadx9.dll2" or whatever.
Start up the game and at the main menu put the anti-alias down to "0."
Turn off the game.
rename "libpandadx9.dll2" back to "libpandadx9.dll"
Start the game.

Hopefully this works for some of you.

This fixed it on my wife's new laptop. Thank you SO much!

[laura111]

Just wanted to say thanks Drawken, your solution worked perfecty.

[justinslot]

Yeah....nothing works for me. Drawken's trick worked for a little while for at least loading the menu screen, but it still wouldn't actually launch the game.

I've got a few month old PC with a GeForce 9800 GT that runs Crysis fine so I don't think I have hardware performance issues. DirectX, .Net, Nividia drivers all updated to the most current versions, patch applied. I click on Vampyre Story, it does the black screen like it's about to launch, and then it goes back to the desktop. Sometimes I hear sound effects like it's running somewhere but I can't see it. It's maddening.

And then when I dropped trying to get it working with my big tv (which gives me trouble in general, not just with this game) and did a fresh install it worked perfectly. And without Drawken's trick! PCs are the craziest peoples.

[Sarmasen]

I had the problems with game dropping back to desktop when i launch it, you can hear the music in the load screen, but you cant see the menu screen. after a while i figured it out. IT WONT RUN PROPERLY IF YOU HAVE EXTENDED DESKTOP ON ANOTHER MONITOR / TV. so if its enabled just rightclick on desktop, go properties > settings tab and click on your 2nd display and disable it. worked for me, and i run it on ATI9600 with aliasing set to 4 without problem. that was the only problem for me MULTIPLE DISPLAYS. hope this helps.

[johnnydepp69]

Both the demo and the full game just drop me right back to the desktop telling me "main.exe has encountered a problem and needs to shut down." On further investigation I found out the file "libpandadx9.dll" in the game directory is creating the problem.

I tried renaming the file for both the demo and full game.
The demo works, but it skips all the videos.
When I tried renaming it for the full game I hear the music and sounds of the intro logo, then it goes to the menu screen. But once I click "NEW GAME" the screen stays black. Nothing.

I already installed the DirectX that was included with the game, but I tried installing the latest version anyway, like someone suggested.
After it was finished installing, I saw that "libpandadx9.dll" was still renamed, so I renamed it back to its original name.

I double clicked "main.exe" having little hope, and lo and behold it worked! The Logo movies were shown. i clicked "NEW GAME" and I watched the intro movies. Everything was working just fine. I saw that anti-alias was set at "0" so I set it to "4", reset the game, and it didn't work after that.

/\ I had a revelation after writing that just now /\
Now, what was different about when the game worked and when it didn't?
*ding ding ding*
*Goes to reset Anti-alias back to "0", restarts game*
It works!!!!

So, for those having problems try renaming "libpandadx9.dll" to "libpandadx9.dll2" or whatever.
Start up the game and at the main menu put the anti-alias down to "0."
Turn off the game.
rename "libpandadx9.dll2" back to "libpandadx9.dll"
Start the game.

Hopefully this works for some of you.

how can i change the Anti Aliasing back to 0? wts the files name in a mac?