@frenchfrog you are a patient and awesome dude (or dudette). Although that was the 3rd time i downloaded it, it worked this time. i guess third times the charm.

creating the preferences got me a real debug response. alpha-3 pc vanilla compiled 12:18:50, Nov 1 2012 Loading Preferences from C:\Users\Jason\AppData\Local/Introversion/Prison Architect/preferences.txt BEGIN DataRegistry DUMP: Screen ScreenW [int] 1024 ScreenH [int] 768 ScreenWindowed [bool] 1 Scr...

i updated and got the same results.

and frog as i said before

And I've checked the appdata folder. There is literally nothing in there.

there is no preferences.txt in the folder all there is, is the blank debug.txt

to put it simply there is no crash report. the computer locks up with a black screen and the only thing i can do is reset my computer. I've tried running the game in compatibility and as admin with 0 change in results. It really irritates me that this isn't working after spending about $30 and i don...

@french frog I did update the drivers and it still failed. here is the dxdiag: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 11/5/2012, 21:57:28 Machine name: JASON-PC Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.w...

your lucky you got to play at all. I get the black screen instantly EVERY TIME. And I've checked the appdata folder. There is literally nothing in there. Well nothing except a debug.txt that is blank. Edit* after deleting the introversion folder from appdata and the files and reinstalling it, i stil...