EB freezes at startup/installation problem

[Henk73]

No, its not a question of patience, Im aware that it would take time to load. Like 20 minutes, half an hour later its still on the initial screen. Does not react at all, not even to Cntr+Alt+Del. Must press restart on computer

[Mediolanicus]

The fact that the EB intro screen is there tells me you've installed it right.
You could validate your install (see stickies) if you think there a problem.

Make sure you have no other programs running in the background.
And it sometimes takes more than half an hour on my pc too. I have only 512MB and especially when I just started the pc things tend to go really slow...

And the fact that it's not reacting to ctr alt delete is normal.

Good luck...

[Henk73]

Hi

maybe I should let it run for longer and see whether it maybe moves on.

On validation it does show error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

[bovi]

Try to start the game before going to bed. If it's up when you've slept, it's a matter of patience versus wallet.

However, there are a number of other suggestions in the validation sticky that you should try, such as disabling movies with the -nm switch.