Originally posted by moosa
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Do yourself a favor right now and change your .ini file to disable all those cinematics. They quickly get old when you're waiting to see whether the game is even going to run for you. If you're not sure just do a search here for "cinematic" and it'll be in the top results.
Next, try removing a stick of memory, booting and loading the game. Did that work? No? You could try swapping the memory stick and booting from the other (just a single one each time) while saying to yourself "there's no memory test like my memory test." If you're lucky the game will run fine and you have just isolated your problem to a faulty stick of memory.
If the game still stalls then it's not a problem with the memory modules themselves. Try this. If, like me, you have 2*2gb sticks of ram, you likely have them in slots 1+2 and your computer may even say something like "4 GB RAM Single Channel" when booting. In most cases this is fine BUT it turns out slots 1+2 share power. You may try moving the second stick to slot 3, so you are using 1+3. When you boot you will see something like "4 GB RAM Dual Channel Interleaved" -- and with luck that will do it for you.
Lastly (assuming you've read through the other threads about stalling/freezing and tried those solutions) I would remove your X-Fi card and try running the game. It probably has nothing to do with your soundcard but it's never a bad thing to try to isolate the problem by removing removeable components.
Also, please make sure you're running Driver Cleaner or Driver Sweeper or both (repeatedly in subsequent safe mode reboots) between uninstalls/version changes of video or sound card drivers.
Good luck!
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