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Black Screen, Spinning Wheel? This Worked For Me

I was 1 of those players that couldn't get past the black screen with a spinning wheel whilst loading Pirates. The only way I could get past the black screen was to disable my soundcard. I checked the Atari Tech Support forum and found this thread;
<a href="http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=431332" target="_blank">http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showt...threadid=431332</a>

My hardware acceleration was not switched on (was set to basic acceleration in DXDiag), I set it to standard and run the sound tests. With hardware acceleration switched on, I now can run Pirates complete with sound!
Msny thanks to r4lphus for posting the solution over at the Atari forum and I hope it helps some of you aswell.
 
Got the same problem with the acceleration, Dxdiag tells me I cant do hardware acceleration on my sound card.
I got Intel 82815 chip on my board and updated the graphic drivers (ver 6.17, 2002) but I couldnt find a sound driver. Either way, I deactivated the sound card via device manager but still I cant get to load the game... I get the message "Unable to initialize directx. Please refer to readme...." and I cant load the game.
Any ideas/suggestions?
 
it didnt work <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />
can play the game but no sound
 
Same problem here: "Unable to initialize directx. Please refer to readme....". Tried everything possible but no way to fix that problem. All my drivers (audio, video, mainboard) are up to date. I wonder if somebody had the same problem and could fix it...
 
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