When I attempt to start Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII, the update window very briefly flashes along with a window that says "cannot initialize 3d engine."

My system specs:
O/s: Windows XP Home
Cpu: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4
Mobo: nforce 680i SLI 775
Video: Geforce 8800 GTS
Audio: Onboard Realtek
Memory: Corsair 2048 DDR2 800

I have reinstalled the game twice, updated all drivers, as well as reinstalled directX.

This is the first game to not run perfectly on this system. Unfortunately I was looking forward to this one more than most

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I HAVE THE EXACT SAME ERROR!

"Cannot initialzie 3d engine"

I have reinstaled the game updated drivers and looked online for a patch none to be had. I even tried on 2 different drives and machines to no avail.

As the above please any assistance would be most helpful I too am looking forward to bereaking in my new X52 Pro!

Wheels

As mentioned in another post by someone, I messed with the desktop resolution and fixed this problem. I set my desktop to 1024x768, patched and started the game up, changed the in-game resolution to my ideal 1920x1080, then restarted the game and it works fine.

Change your desktop resolution on 1024x768 and start the game. That's the only solution so far I know.

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024x768 and start the game. That's the only solution so fa

tested all kind of desktop resolution ... max resolution ingame for me is 960x600 i will return the game saturday ... because there are also different problems with joysticks and other gaming controllers. sofar bad coders suck

i got the same problem to, but i' using my laptop.
i need that help 2

FIX to 3D engine error

I called Ubisoft as well and they gave me the same old armature instructions they have given all of you. Of course I had already tried these and more with no result. Here is what I was able to find. The display setting were not an issue, I went to the missions file (C:\program files\unbisoft\Blazing Angles 2\data\missions) this path might be slightly off as I am not currently on a machine that has the game installed. In the missions folder I noticed that many of the FOLDERS had gone missing. When you first install the game the missions folder has many folders named after countries in Europe. I backed up my mission folder and uninstalled MAKING SURE to select delete saved mission at the end of the uninstall. I assume most people do not do this because like me they do not want to loose the progress they have made. After I allowed it to delete the files the game ran just fine. When I went back and looked at the mission folder there were many more folders than before. So to rap up the mission files are getting corrupted at some time hence the sudden stop in the game function. I tried to restore the files I had backed up however this did not restore my statues in the game, further indicating that this is in fact file corruption issue. So I was not able to restore my game statues however it did fix the game and that is good enough for me.