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[orangeseapanda]

About two weeks ago I bought SMB on Steam after hearing all about it for so long.  After buying it I installed it and everything was fine.  When I tried to open it after it was done downloading, it said SMB preparing to launch and the screen went black.  After about 10 seconds an error message showed up for a split second (so the message is unreadable) then it goes back to a black screen.  I checked the website http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/ and it said my computer would run it fine.  So I deleted SMB, reinstalled it, and still the same problem. I updated ALL of the Video Drivers, as well as numerous times of rebooting the computer.  I asked my friend and he said wait a day or two so Steam can verify the purchase... it's been two weeks. If anybody can help, I would be grateful because my patience is running low. (I'm running on Windows XP, and I have a Dell Optiplex 330.  Sorry i'm such a n00b with computers. Also, my other games The Binding of Issac and Counter Strike work fine.)

[Zarkith]

Congratulations, you've been trolled by your friend.

Try adding -windowed to the launch options as instructed in the sticky and see what happens. You should also re-install DirectX just to be safe.

Let us know what happens with as much detail as possible.

[orangeseapanda]

I've done both of those things, and as the window for SMB opened, an error message said this...

An error has occurred and a mini-dump (hehe) has been sent to Team Meat.  We'll fix this ASAP. Sorry about this.

Then the window closed. So is there anything I can do now?
 

[Zarkith]

Well at least you got to see the error message, unfortunately it's the extremely generic one that has an infinite number of causes and fixes.

Search through the old threads here and you might find a solution. (Please don't bump the threads if you do)