APPRECIATED IF SOMEONE HELPED ME . . . :D

Well, simply, my predicament is caused by a very stubborn Steam . . .

I essentially failed to recognize that once I have converted my Alpha Game Key into a Steam Key, I cannot download the launcher from the Uber Store, or even activate my original Game Key, which is the core of the issue.

I have paid in full the $70 required for the Galactic Edition.

I have my original Game Key, even though I can't activate it ( :cry: ), the newly converted Steam Key, and my Order ID.

I am simply asking for someone to explain to me how I may retrieve and activate my original Game Key and then use it to download the launcher.

THANK YOU ALL!!!!

Have you linked your Steam accout to your Ubernet one? That's the first step in getting PA working with Steam.

There'll be a few threads around here where other people have had similar troubles.

Read this thread. I imagine it was too far down for you to spot, as it's hard to read the first page of threads.

I have since then linked my Uber and Steam accounts together successfully. :geek:

Unfortunately, the Steam Launcher still doesn't work. :cry:

Let me be clear: Basically, when I hit the "PLAY" button, the PA (Launcher, I believe) window pops up and my computer simply then states a standard "pa.exe has stopped working" error. :evil:

Also, I still haven't found solutions to how to activate the original Game Key once it has been converted to a Steam Key.b :?:

THANKS!

Once you convert to Steam, you can't "activate" the original key, as your ownership is now determined by Steam, not us. However, as long as you're linked, that doesn't matter.

PA stopping working is, 9 times out of 10, old drivers. Make sure your video drivers are the latest ones available. If in doubt, post here and attach your dxdiag.txt file to the post, and we can scan and give you some ideas.

At this point I really doubt I can download the launcher and having a legitimate code, but here's my DxDiag File:

(Also Attached)

*mod edited - please don't copy / paste contents of large files - just attach*

THANKS!

Holy bollocks, we can download the DxDiag, you don't need to post a wall of text

It appears you're using an Intel Integrated Graphics chip... Which are pretty terrible to be blunt. That *may* be the cause of the issue, but I'm not all that great at troubleshooting hardware problems.

Whenever looking at a DXDiag, if the driver date shows as older than 2012, you can pretty much assume that's at least the first problem.

Intel info on drivers:
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-028686.htm

An example search to find driver options:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Search ... 000%2f2000

Any drivers this old are almost guaranteed to have problems that will cause the game to not function.

Sorry about the wall of text. I was overreacting . . .

I'm a computer liking kind of guy, but all the same, I have never really bothered to research a few topics . . . :ugeek:

IE, whether drivers are able to be updated, or are simply stuck the way they were initially produced. :?:

Also, even though my video card appears to be horrible, will it still be able to run PA? According to my own research, I seem to have one of the latest versions of DirectX (V.11), which also appears to support Shader 5.0, clearly passing the minimum posted in the website. :?

So the main (If not only) problem is my graphics card and/or drivers? :?

If so, any suggestions???

Open this link (you need Java installed):
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect?iid=dc_iduu
And it's should give you update for your driver.

Run - yes. I don't think it will be really playable.

Unfortunately that all mean nothing when you have Intel integrated GPU. Actually your integrated videocard have performance like discrete videocard from 2005.

Yeah, it's suitable for documents work and some extremely optimized games, but it's 10-20 times slower than current-gen discrete cards.

Both. If you update drivers game should start at least, but it's will have poor performance anyway.