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punished

Other than "because Windows is a piece of steaming feces," can anyone give a reason why the PC demo for "The Punisher" should install nicely, run for about a minute, but refuse to run nicely again? After a minute of initial play, it flipped to an all-turquoise (not BSOD) screen apparently still running if continuing in-game sound is any indicator. Then I Alt-F4'd out of the application (since no menu was displayed), and tried to run the app again. It generated a DirectX error immediately after the app is executed, prior to the setup menu, and way prior to the previous error it had with the turquoise screen.

I uninstalled, and then re-installed the application, with the same resulting DX error.

I uninstalled, rebooted, then re-installed the application: same error.

The Program Files directory for the application is erased on uninstall, so it isn't leaving a residing .ini file there, but for some reason the application doesn't display the same initial dialog (that said, "since this is the first time you've run Punisher"), so it somehow knows that it isn't the first time I've installed the demo. It's likely hiding something somewhere in the the computer for it to know that, right?

Anyway, the big question is why would it work the first time it was installed (kinda) but not at all on subsequent installations?

While I'm at it, I will also wonder aloud why iTunes 4.7.1.30 takes SO much longer to start up than ANY other iteration of the app.