STW fails to load

[Caphriel]

I hope you don't mind my first post being a request for help, but that's what brought me to this forum in the first place. I've full installed Shgun: Total War, and that went fine (with an error message when the time came to switch disks, but that didn't seemt to cause any problems. I could be mistaken, though) but I can't play the game. When I attempt to open it, the splash screen appears, it seems to be loading, then the splash screen disappears and that's that.

I spent hours reading through the tech support section here, but I didn't find anything applicable. I tried some of the solutions posted there, but to no effect.

My system specs, if it helps, are:
CPU: AMD Athlon
Video card:ATI Radeon 8500 (might be LE)
Video driver: Basic windows Radeon 8500 version 6.14.10.6462
RAM: 512 MB
DirectX: 9.0c
OS: Win XP SP2

I've tried running it with all antivirus and antispyware programs disabled, but to no effect.

Any help at all would be great. This is really frustrating

[Martok]

Welcome to the Org, Caphriel.

I've posted your problem at the Apothecary in this thread. Our more technologically-savvy members will show up to help you out before long.

[Caphriel]

Thank you! I do hope they can help me. I was really looking forward to playing this game.

Seems like a nice forum, too. I think I'll be doing some hanging out here in the future

[Mithrandir]

Welcome to the bOrg, you will now be assimilated.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Most likely you have to remove starforce: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=49780

Hi, I'm a new member of the forums. I had the same problem and have just find a "solution" that worked for me. In my case the problem was not in Shogun, but in Starforce.

For those that don't know what Starforce is: it's a copy protection software that is included in some games (more each day it seems). In this thread in the Wargamer's forum you can find a guide to know if you have Starforce installed and a link to an uninstaller: http://www.wargamer.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100639

I used the utility mentioned in that thread to remove Starforce, and after restarting the computer, STW worked fine. So you can try this to see if it's your case too.