Vanilla Planetary Annihilation Hangs and Terminates on Splash

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  1. riddle78

    riddle78 New Member

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    To be as clear as possible; I am running the original,vanilla version of Planetary Annihilation,not Titans. No mods. Got it? Get it? GOOD.

    I have bought Planetary Annihilation a good long while ago,but stopped playing for an extended period of time. I think it was because I found it utterly impossible to invade an entrenched planet. This was before the Unit Cannon. Anyways. My problem is thus; When I try to launch Planetary Annihilation,the program simply halts,forcing me to take the automated prompt's suggestion to terminate the process. It does so on the initial splash that you're greeted with when telling Steam to launch the game.

    I really want to play Planetary Annihilation right now,largely because of a few fanfics I'm reading. How can I fix this problem? What further information do I have to provide,if any,to facilitate this?

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    mikeyh Post Master General

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  3. riddle78

    riddle78 New Member

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    Alright,log and DXDiag report attached to the initial post. What else do you need?
  4. mikeyh

    mikeyh Post Master General

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    Very outdated driver and not a lot of RAM:
    • Driver Date/Size: 4/16/2010
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    riddle78 New Member

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    Any indication of what this driver is for?
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    mikeyh Post Master General

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    ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
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    I've updated my drivers,and the problem persists. Any further ideas?
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    The relevant files have been purged from my laptop,and the problem still persists. My computer meets the halfway point between minimum and recommended amount of RAM. To reiterate; The game hangs and tanks at the initial splash,while the game is attempting the initial loading. I will admit; The laptop I'm using is fairly bad,but it's all I have,and I lack alternatives. It's an HP Pavilion dv6,in case you're wondering,and in case it helps.
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    Unfortunately,the first step of the linked instructions has me absolutely lost,because it is assuming that the user knows something that isn't the absolute basics. The downloaded package has nothing even remotely along the lines of a "Normal AMD Cleanup",which is apparently the first step I need to do.

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