Three days ago the game was working fine, then I changed nothing and now it crashes before I even get to the main menu. That happens 99% of the time I click play, then for no reason it launches ONCE and works until I close it again and we're back to crashing over and over and over...

I was using dgvoodoo+dxwnd combo for years with no issues and now my pc just seems like its cursed or something.

I have tried reinstalling the game, changing all kinds of settings and installing the windows 10 patch by felizpe. Same story every time. I did manage to get it to run inside of a VM but the performance was not great so I don't really wanna use that option.

How are you guys getting the game to run? Maybe something will work...

edit: I should mention, it's the type of issue where a small black box either disappears after a few seconds or sticks around until you terminate it with task manager.

Just dropping some info that may be good to know if you are interested in running this game.

Getting the game to run at around 120 fps is pretty much required to do certain skips(For example: Hospital car dash is pretty much impossible at 60). Edit: Did some more testing, was able to do the hospital skip at 70fps and up. Couldn't do it on 65 and 68 so I guess you need a bit less than I thought. Having a lower framerate(Around 5fps) also makes you dash further(Only noticeable at very long distances) and sometimes negates fall damage. I have not found a way to change max fps in-game, there is a console command but it seemingly does nothing at all.

There is an infinite jump glitch that is so broken, both in how it works and what you could do with it that you could probably fly straight to the end of most maps if you are willing to subject yourself to that kind of torture. What you do is: Jump->Save at the peak of the jump->Load->Spam jump and hope that it works->Save at the peak of that jump->etc. Now that might sound simple, the problem is it will be consistent(You get the jump every time) for 5 minutes and then it won't work at all for hours. Back to framerates again: Lower fps seems to make it easier to do this glitch but since there is no way to change your max fps this information doesn't really help.

Charging grenade launcher shots is pretty simple but I might aswell explain it. Shooting with this weapon mode has a small delay before it actually fires a grenade, so if you switch to another weapon mode during that delay it stores that grenade for your next shot. You can keep charging your shots as much as you want, but I'm not sure if it will fire more grenades than you have ammo for(13 ammo per grenade).

If you quickload too much in one session your framerate might get bugged so that it is much lower than usual. The only way I've found to fix it is to exit the game completely and start it up again.

If I can think of more things I will add them here.