Democracy3 won't start on Win7

Democracy 3 support
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Hi,

I just purchased and installed Democracy3 on Win7 and it won’t start. I tried rebooting. I read the Compilation List. I never played the Demo version. Here is the error message:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Democracy3.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 52651652
Fault Module Name: Democracy3.exe
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 52651652
Exception Code: 80000003
Exception Offset: 000014c9
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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27/10/2013 - 16::53 - WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight
27/10/2013 - 16::53 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 16::53 - CreateDevice
27/10/2013 - 16::53 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 16::53 - CreateDevice failed again
27/10/2013 - 16::53 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211
27/10/2013 - 16::55 - WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight
27/10/2013 - 16::55 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 16::55 - CreateDevice
27/10/2013 - 16::55 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 16::55 - CreateDevice failed again
27/10/2013 - 16::55 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211
27/10/2013 - 16::57 - WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight
27/10/2013 - 16::57 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 16::57 - CreateDevice
27/10/2013 - 16::57 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 16::57 - CreateDevice failed again
27/10/2013 - 16::57 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211
27/10/2013 - 17::4 - WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight
27/10/2013 - 17::4 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::4 - CreateDevice
27/10/2013 - 17::4 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::4 - CreateDevice failed again
27/10/2013 - 17::4 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211
27/10/2013 - 17::5 - WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight
27/10/2013 - 17::5 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::5 - CreateDevice
27/10/2013 - 17::5 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::5 - CreateDevice failed again
27/10/2013 - 17::5 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211
27/10/2013 - 17::7 - WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight
27/10/2013 - 17::7 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::7 - CreateDevice
27/10/2013 - 17::7 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::7 - CreateDevice failed again
27/10/2013 - 17::7 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211
27/10/2013 - 17::8 - WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight
27/10/2013 - 17::8 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::8 - CreateDevice
27/10/2013 - 17::8 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::8 - CreateDevice failed again
27/10/2013 - 17::8 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - CreateDevice
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - CreateDevice failed again
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - CreateDevice
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - CreateDevice failed again
27/10/2013 - 17::16 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211

thanks,
John

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WARNING: Desktop Screen Resolution is below MinScreenHeight

The game needs a screen resolution of 768 or higher, unless you want to play windowed. to do that…

Open this file:
\my documents\my games\democracy3\prefs.ini using windows notepad.
Change the line that says
windowed = 0
to
windowed = 1
Then save it and re-launch the game.
Cheers,