Kicked to desktop..no errors, popups or anything.

[solidad]

cpu: 2500 barton
vidcard: ati x800 latest catalyst drivers as of this morning
soundcard: integrated ac97 nforce2
mobo: asus a7n8x
OS: windows xp sp2

Tried reinstalling the demo multiple times and still get the same thing:

Run the exe and get a grey screen (no sound) then thrown right back to desktop. no warning or errors or anything.

[Brian Karis]

Check system properties->advanced->error reporting. Make sure its on for all programs and theres no blank entries in the do not report box. This should give you the box of the error when programs crash.

[solidad]

it was the audio drivers..works great....

Except multiplayer locks and I have to reboot....

[FireFly]

Except multiplayer locks and I have to reboot....
Could be a firewall issue.

[solidad]

a firewall would cause the game to physically lock the machine? the minute I hit "multiprey" it locks. no cpu activity or anything...hrm I will see what else I can do

[FireFly]

My firewall was causing Prey to lock in the same conditions, so yes it's possible.

If the game tries to send an authentication request and it can't because the firewall is blocking it, then obviously there's going to be an issue.

[Cheapy]

i've had this problem before, I had to snag OpenAL and install that