I've been fooled twice, shame on me.

[Evolution13]

Amnesia is the second steam game I've gotten recently that refuses to run. It used to be when I had this problem, I could just run the executable in administrator mode, and problem solved. Nowadays I'm running into more and more games that just don't seem to work with the steam/windows 7 x64 combo.

When I tried to buy settlers 7 via steam. the game utterly refused to run and 2 weeks of working with both steam and ubisoft support yielded absolutely zero results.

Finally I bit the bullet and purchased the game via Impulse, It ran perfectly on the first try, no troubleshooting required. I suspected this would work as the standalone demo worked perfectly. (Steam was actually willing to give me a refund n the end, I was impressed.)

Now I'm seeing the same pattern with Amnesia. Only beta graphics drivers could be more up to date than what I have now. I've tried every trick I know. and the game just won't run. The standalone "not joined at the hip to steam" demo works perfectly however.. and I suspect the simple answer to all my woes will be to simply buy a non-steam copy of the game.

that being said, I'd appreciate any input people would have to help me get amnesia running. I have a 3ghz core two quad, 6 gigs of ram and a Geforce 275 running Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. The game will launch to the launcher screen where you select various options, hitting launch there causes it to think for a moment, then do nothing.

The obsessive answer seeking part of me is writing this post to try and get the steam version to work. The compassionate part of me is saying just buy another copy on impulse, and eat the extra $20 to support a struggling developer, while the responsible me is telling me to get a refund from steam.

dxdiag attached just in case