Well, I got Heavy Gear for my birthday years ago, and I absolutely loved that damn game. I lost the CD for like four years, and now I found it inside the Heavy Gear 2 case (Typical). I can get the game to load up fine, the sounds in the menus work fine, and the whole thing works great . . . untill I actually try to play the game. It blackscreens me and brings up my mouse curser, the screen is back at my desktops normal resolution and the Task Manager says that Heavy Gear isnt responding, yet hg.exe it taking up a monsterous amount of CPU cycles. I tried waiting to see if it would load, and I've tried all manners of compatability options tweaking and VDM Sound workings, and got nothing. I tried that dgvoodoo thing but when it comes to those types of things I'm like a caveman trying to fit a square rock into a circular hole.

Im running XP with SP2 with an AMD XP 2800 chip and a GeForce 6800 GT. Any information would be greatly appreciated.