Okay so I installed the game fine, but when I go to run it and click the desktop icon, there's the little loading hourglass for a few seconds and then nothing. The program doesn't start at all no matter how long I wait.
This happens every time I've tried playing it. I've tried it with the patch and without, made sure I was set as the Owner (admin), added it to firewall exclusions, turned off antivirus, etc etc.
I'm running on WinXP.
Two weird things seem to occur frequently as well. Firstly, after the problem with it not loading, I can't seem to run any other windows processes such as when i first attempted to add it to the firewall exclusions after it didn't run (I ended up adding it after restarting), and worse then that, my computer can't shutdown or restart (so I have to turn it off from the back). At one point the computer froze up as well.
Secondly, the omerta_M.exe seems to be running when I check the 'processes' in task manager. I can't end it as a process at all. It's in the applications tab too, as 'not responding' and I can't 'end task'.
Anyone know what may be causing this and what I could do to remedy the situation (any suggestions would be welcome) so I can finally get to playing this game? Am I the only one who has this issue?