PC Chaos Theory - locking up before briefing screen

[CowfishLonghorn]

I just started playing Chaos Theory and it was going fine, until I died on the first mission and went to reload. Now, it goes past the cutscene, then the lighthouse loading screen and gets stuck at what appears to be the binocular view, instead of moving on to briefing and loadout.

http://xs305.xs.to/xs305/06334/scscreen2.jpg

AMD Athlon 3000+
ATI Radeon x800 Pro

Rebooting and reinstalling had no effect, as did changing shaders/shadows/any other video settings I could think of.

I'm not running any windows skin programs currently and can't think of what else to try.

Edit: Also, this wasn't the first time restarting, quitting and starting a new game altogether worked twice but after selecting 'restart level' from the death screen, this started happening.

[CowfishLonghorn]

I just started playing Chaos Theory and it was going fine, until I died on the first mission and went to reload. Now, it goes past the cutscene, then the lighthouse loading screen and gets stuck at what appears to be the binocular view, instead of moving on to briefing and loadout.

http://xs305.xs.to/xs305/06334/scscreen2.jpg

AMD Athlon 3000+
ATI Radeon x800 Pro

Rebooting and reinstalling had no effect, as did changing shaders/shadows/any other video settings I could think of.

I'm not running any windows skin programs currently and can't think of what else to try.

Edit: Also, this wasn't the first time restarting, quitting and starting a new game altogether worked twice but after selecting 'restart level' from the death screen, this started happening.

[Warrior0fLight]

Huh, I've never seen that one b4.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Edit: Also, this wasn't the first time restarting, quitting and starting a new game altogether worked twice but after selecting 'restart level' from the death screen, this started happening. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Do you have the MS patch referenced in the thread "ATTN: New Windows Security Update Renders CT Unplayable" installed? If so, uninstall it and try again to see it that fixes it.
This may be a dumb question, but here goes, have you tried playing through it without dying to see if you can continue on? You might try watching DanielHac's video walkthrough to see how to accomplish that. It's for the Xbox but the same methods apply to the PC. You can find them here (http://www.danielhac.com/chaosstats.aspx), just enter your gamertag or such and hit submit to get access to them all.

[CowfishLonghorn]

No, I haven't installed any Windows updates in a few months.

The problem is, I can't go through it without dying because it won't even start the level.

On a whim earlier I decided to try running it, and it worked. However I only had a couple minutes before I had to leave, and wasn't worried since I didn't figure it'd just instantly break again, which it did http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

Another thing I noticed is that you're supposed to get a "press any key to continue" after the loading screen with the lighthouse, this just happens right after the bar fills up.