One of my friends ordered UT2K4 a few days ago, and to ease his wait I gave him a link to the demo on the site (http://www.unrealtournament.com/).

Long story short, the demo won't run. I got his computer specs off him and gave a few suggestions to try (restarting after the install, checking his drivers) but apparently nothing worked.

His specs (as best as he could give them) are:
GeForce FX5200 (he also said the memory size was "64/128/256MB DDR SDRAM")
AMD athalon XP 1800+
1.51 GHz
512 MB of RAM

Now, what he says happens is this: he'll double click the launcher for the demo, the logo will come up, and then he'll get an error message that reads something like 'UT2004 has encountered an error and has had to shutdown'. Neither of us know much past the basics of this kind of thing, so I'm hoping people here will have some good suggestions to help get his game to work, and avoid him having wasted money on the full game. Help, please?

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update directx and video drivers

If that fails, reinstall the game.

I get the same kind of error after reinstalling windows or doing anything that would affect the registry - but the demo doesn't have any registry keys that I know of.

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thort id let yall kno. it was me having the problem. I got the game today...it runs smoothly as something which is hella-smooth. thatnks for the help!!

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