Vista - Harry Potter-Order of the PHoenix problem

Team,
I have had HP Order of the Phoenix running on Vista Ultimate before.
Just tried running it and it does not appear to run.
I can see that there is a hp.exe process (by guess is its the gaming trying to start).
I wait for a while and nothing happens.

If the game dvd is not in the drive it complains as expected.
So I load up the dvd; still nothing appears to happen.

Kaspersky has been installed since the last time it ran;
I have checked and the game is trusted to run.
Even tried running it as admin; no luck.

Tried uninsalling/reinstalling (a number of times); no luck.

Any thoughts would be appreciated as the kids are driving me nuts for the game.

cheers,
dg

Hello dgoogle,
Can you list your system specs, when you say you had it running on Vista before, was it on this pc ?.

I have run the EA EasyInfo v3 to test system compatibility; it shows ticks for everything.

BTW: I can run other EA games like Spore, SIMCity4 without any problem.

Also checked event logs, nothing there.

System:
Vista 32 + SP2
Asus P5W DH Deluxe + 4GB RAM + Intel Core2 6700@2.66GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS with current drivers
Realtek High Definition Audio

dg

You have run it as an administrator, how about compatibilty mode ?.

stoneys-nutz, I have tried as admin + compatibility mode (xp+sp2) nothing....

Tried the following: removed CD, started program, was asked for CD, put in CD, then...... nothing

Also, tested running an XP guest on virtualbox on another PC and it worked fine.
Tried to run the same XP guest install on virtualbox on my vista host..... and it still did not work.


dg

Disable Kaspersky and try, it could be blocking it.
I have seen a few people have good results with this fix, although not really a fix, more of a work around.

Already tried disabling kaspersky, rebooted the host to make sure it was not running.....

still no luck....

dg

sounds like it could be a misread from the dvd to hdd,

you could try a NO-CD FIXED .EXE, since you own the game it is not really an issue to use it.

you are on your own to find it though.