Elemental failure

The game should run on that system.

Try running it window mode

To do this from outside the game go to your documents file, then find the "My games folder" then go into the "Elemental" folder then find the file that is named pref.ini

 Open the file in notepad or wordpad (any text editor)

Under the Video settings you should see

DisplayWidth=
DisplayHeight=
Fullscreen=

Set the Fullscreen to 0 so it reads

Fullscreen=0

Then set the displaywidth/height to your desktop resolution (this will make the game run full screen even though it's running in a window).

If that doesn't work it couldn't hurt to download directx from microsoft and netframework.

If that doesn't work maybe check your sound settings or to see if it your sound card causing the problem by setting all the sound in the game to 0

Sfx=0
Music=0
EventMusic=0

AmbientSound=0

If the game works after that then it's a sound driver issue.

Other things you can do is make sure your nvidia card is using it's default settings by going to the nvidia control panel and making sure anti-ailising and anistropic filtering are on "application preference".

If none of that works then go here

https://forums.elementalgame.com/forum/877

Or just wait, it seems to do some kind of network check on the load screen and if you "escape" the intro. I don't know this for sure but I'm playing it on 2 different PC's, one is normal DSL and it starts up quick fast, the other is behind all kinds of firewalls and proxy servers and it takes 5 to 10 min to get to the game menu. The second is by far the faster PC so I can only assume it's trying to chat to impulse or someone.

switching to windowed mode appears to have fixed it

thank you very much!