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I don't know why this worked, but I hope you do: After I downloaded the game, I found that 90% of the time when I tried to load it, it crashed to desktop with the message "Direct3D initialization failed." However, sometimes it loaded and worked just fine, so I scratched my old head for many hours and finally opened the Settings folder of the VGN folder in the game folder, and opened the file Display.opt in Notebook and changed "D3D9FullScreen" from 0 to 1. Now the game loads and works just fine. Weird, huh?

Very interesting remark, thanks. IN full screen, DirectX is in 'exclusive mode', i.e no other game using directX can use it, but Windows give much more power to the app using this mode... this can explain. Thanks!

That makes sense, because I have an older computer. I guess it doesn't have enough memory to run in anything but fullscreen mode. I appreciate your explanation; perhaps it will help someone else having the same problem.