[stevedroid]

I got a disc copy of the MOH:AA single player demo from Electronics Boutique and I was quite excited to play.

Unfortunately upon starting the game it just starts to a grey screen and then sits there indefinitely. There seems to be some hard drive activity going on (the little IDE activity light blinks) but it still sits there. I waited for several minutes hoping it was just taking a REALLY long time to load, but to no avail.

I searched the board and it seems that other people have experienced the problem as well. Yet, it seems there's no definite solution.

I've got a GeForce 3 card and I reinstalled the official 23.11 drivers. I tried reinstalling DirectX 8.1. I have the newest drivers installed for my soundcard (SB Audigy). I even tried the download version (which was painful on a 56k) hoping that the EB demo was a beta, alas it seems they are the same.

It's that damn EA spash screen (I saw the demo on my friends computer...that's how I know about it). Why the heck doesn't it work. I have other EA games (Alice, Undying) and the screen loads fine.

Any help/hints? Has the cause of this problem been discovered yet?