Titan Quest - can't make it work!!!

Having serious problems with Titan Quest - first it wouldn't work so we bought a new graphics card thinking this would help but no, it didn't! Have black "splotches" all over the screen and graphics glitch frequently... tried installing 1.08 patch but made no difference, tried the 1.08 to 1.11 patch - but now every time we try to load the game it restarts the PC!!!! Desperately trying to make this work as the game looks excellent - any idea's?

We are running :
•Windows XP SP2
•3.2 Ghz Intel Pentium IV
•1 Gb Ram
•30Gb hard drive space
•GeForce FX5950 Ultra (just bought to try and make game work!)
•SoundBlaster Audiology
•24x CD-ROM/DVD Drive
•Keyboard, Mouse (funnily enough)

The game states....

Minimum System Requirements:

•Windows® 2000 or XP
•1.8 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent or AMD Athlon XP or equivalent
•512 MB RAM
•5 GB free hard drive space
•64 MB NVIDIA GeForce 3 or equivalent or ATI Radeon 8500 series with Pixel Shader 1.1 support or equivalent
•DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card
•8x or faster CD-ROM drive
•Keyboard, Mouse

Recommended System Requirements:

•Windows XP
•3.0 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent
•1 GB RAM
•5.0 GB or more free hard drive space
•128 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series or ATI Radeon X800 series or equivalent
•DirectX® 9.0c compatible or Soundblaster X-Fi series sound card
•8x or faster CD-ROM/DVD drive
•Keyboard, Mouse


We have all of these or higher and STILL it doesn't work. Any body any ideas? We're fresh out and getting a frustrated! Just want to play the game!!!!

Look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for red X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id & Description especially of errors that seem to coincide with this issue.
Also check the Information lines that might coincide with this issue.

How to view and manage event logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP

I Just got the game for my son and install it on a AMD 1.7 528 of Ram. did not run at firsted. So I set everything under Video memu to Low and unclick full screen. and it is now working. hope this will help you!