18 WoS Pedal to the Metal doesn't start! Graphics Problem

[7.e.Q]

Hello people,

I got a problem starting my 18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the Metal. It always tries to start with OpenGL but for some unknown reason it throws the message "We are sorry, but the operating system failed to provide the window to render the game graphics in" and returns to desktop.

I don't want the game to use OpenGL, instead want to switch to DirectX, as the readme told me. But NOWHERE is described how this is done! Does anybody know??? I'm getting really angry!

Thanx!

Greetz

[Rocol]

Not an Emergency, moved to Software.

[7.e.Q]

Thanks!

It seems to be a known issue and will be solved in the first patch. For everybody else running into this problem: it's caused by the combination of a Pentium 4 with activated Hyper Threading running a Windows XP with Service Pack 2. Deactivating Hyper Threading is a running workaround. I tried it. It works. But it's for sure not the ultimative solution.

Hope patch will come soon.