Try without galaxy. Just download the plain offline installers, and install them to a folder outside of galaxy, windows or anything else. have you out a ticket into support?

A new one to the collection. This time it's Requiem the avenging angel. Ran perfectly fine yesterday. today it froze up right after the 3Dfx thing and I couldn't even kill it any way as the window was blocking the whole screen and it refused to switch to anywhere else, like the task manager. ffs

Made support ticket about this crap. I suspect everytime I run a new game, the game's executable gets added to some windows service that determines whether you play a game or not for it to send/not send windows notifications during that or whatever other crap, like gameplay recording, and this thing messes the whole game up. I think the case of Rogue squadron was that the game uses a launcher, that is, the launcher got messed up and couldn't be run the next day, but the actual game executable remained ok and that's why I could play the game at least that way.

New development: It seems that it was Sonic Studio messing things up. I don't know if it was improperly installed (I had sound trouble some time ago, ahd to reinstall drivers in an attempt to fix it and this sonic suite thing comes with the ASUS motherboard) or if it generally has some weird impact. So I reinstalled the drivers once again from the ASUS support page, sonic suite was in the archive with the drivers but it apparently did not install itself this time. I'll see how it goes tomorrow but today Requiem ran fine.


So if you experience weird stuff and have sonic studio stuff installed, try turning it off for a while and run the games that won't run to see if they do run with the sonic studio off.