Mirrors Edge - HELP!

albert · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:24

hi ... just bought this from STEAM for £3.24.

When i click to play i immediately get the error message "Mirrors Edge Has Stopped Working" and the game crashes. Great!!

Any ideas anyone?

Snakedoctor · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:26

What is a "crases". No great loss it's a terrible "game". Updated your GPU driver?

albert · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:28

...im not a noob ...... every game on my system plays perfect .... what makes this game so special that i need to update my GPU driver?

Tombstone · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:36

Maybe some compatibility issue with Windows 7?

Does it crash straight away, before you can get to the game menus or anything?

QlimaxUK · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:37

verify cache through steam maybe?

albert · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:38

Tombstone said:
Maybe some compatibility issue with Windows 7?

Does it crash straight away, before you can get to the game menus or anything?

Yes .. i click the shortcut on my desktop , the screen goes black and then i get an error message.

Also i tried every combination in compatibility mode and it still won't work.....

.... sure it's got something to do with NVidia Physx software it downloaded ....

albert · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:39

QlimaxUK said:
verify cache through steam maybe?[/QUOTE

Done that and still nothing .....

QlimaxUK · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:41

done !, as in it now works? or done ! as in 'i tryed that already' :confused:

Tombstone · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:42

albert said:
Yes .. i click the shortcut on my desktop , the screen goes black and then i get an error message.

Also i tried every combination in compatibility mode and it still won't work.....

.... sure it's got something to do with NVidia Physx software it downloaded ....

I crashed on it until I turned off the Nvidia Physx option in the menu, however my crash wasnt immediate, I was able to play the game for a few minutes and then it would lock up and minimize. Once I turned off the Physx option in the game menu it was fine. Not much help though if you cant get to the menu.

I guess there might be an ini file or something in the game directory where you can find a line to disable the physx , cant check at the moment though as I'm at work.

albert · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:43

QlimaxUK said:
done !, as in it now works? or done ! as in 'i tryed that already'

like my post said "Done that and still nothing - it's still not working"

uv · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:53

albert said:
what makes this game so special that i need to update my GPU driver?

Have you actually updated your graphics drivers yet?

You've asked a rather inane question - why wouldn't you want to have the latest drivers?

albert · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:01

uv said:
Have you actually updated your graphics drivers yet?

You've asked a rather inane question - why wouldn't you want to have the latest drivers?

9.12 drivers installed .... inane answer - but also an inane question

LeJosh · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:03

Got the latest physx too? Just incase.

And don't be so blunt with people trying to provide help. They won't take too kindly.

albert · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:06

LeJosh said:
Got the latest physx too? Just incase.

And don't be so blunt with people trying to provide help. They won't take too kindly.

ah ah!!! - wouldn't STEAM automatically update the physx drivers? Seems strange i have to install an NVidia piece of software for an ATI card ....

LeJosh · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:10

albert said:
ah ah!!! - wouldn't STEAM automatically update the physx drivers? Seems strange i have to install an NVidia piece of software for an ATI card ....

I don't think so but here :-

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/physx_9.09.1112_uk.html

And doesn't matter the game needs the drivers I think. ATi card or not. If that doesn't work then...

Snakedoctor · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:12

albert said:
9.12 drivers installed .... inane answer - but also an inane question

You are not engendering yourself to getting any help much. :/

albert · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:23

LeJosh said:
I don't think so but here :-

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/physx_9.09.1112_uk.html

And doesn't matter the game needs the drivers I think. ATi card or not. If that doesn't work then...

Steam installs version 8.10, whilst the latest drivers are 9.09. Installed the latest physx driver and still wont work. Bugger.

Snakedoctor · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:26

Perhaps you should stop swearing.

QlimaxUK · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:26

sounds like an ATI/win7 related issue

the game worked fine on my x1950 so maybe its a HDxxxx series issue, i dont use Win7 (i refuse too due to these kind of issues), would you be comfortable running a dual-boot with win XP? thats the only fix if its a Win7 thing unless you can run some kind of DX9 compatable option

CHokKA · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:28

Nothing to do with UAC on your system at all? I've known a few games to crash like this on loading due to not having the correct privileges assigned by UAC being enabled.