broken all together!

[runer4]

i have a vista home basic, with a nvidia geforce 7600 gs, with directx 10. every time I try to press new game, join game, tutorial or roll recording the game crashes for no reason, iv even got the latest update.
please suggest ways to fix this!

Debug.txt:

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Defcon 1.43 steam built Jul  2 2007
Parsing archive main.dat...DONE
WinSock started
Client listening on port 5011
Parsing Coastline data (1776 islands) : 47ms
Parsing International data (2753 islands) : 19ms
Parsing City data (2745 cities) : 39ms
Parsing archive sounds.dat...DONE
Authentication key set : '***'
WinSock started
Connection established to MetaServer, listening on Port 5009
Steam Authentication Initiated
Steam Authentication : Starting Steam
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
Requesting data from MetaServer : DemoLimits
Steam Authentication : Starting Steam API
Received data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
Received data from MetaServer : MOTD
Received data from MetaServer : DemoLimits
Steam Authentication : Logging On To Steam
Received Authentication : **** : (keyID -1) : Accepted
Auth Key accepted as DEMOKEY : ********
Steam Authentication : Getting Steam Id
Steam Authentication : SteamID = ******88
Steam Authentication : Getting Encryption Details
Requesting data from MetaServer : UpdateURL
Received data from MetaServer : UpdateURL
Requesting data from MetaServer : sb
Received data from MetaServer : sb
Steam Authentication : Getting Steam2 Auth
Steam Authentication : Getting Steam3 Auth
Steam Authentication : Requesting Authentication
Steam Authentication Accepted : DEMO USER
Steam Authentication FAILED
Client dropped by server
Authentication key set : '*****'
Requesting authentication of key *****
Received Authentication : ***** : (keyID ****) : Accepted
Authentication HashToken set to ******
CLIENT : Disconnected
EclRemoveWindow failed on window LOBBY


Preferences.txt:

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ScreenWidth = 1024
ScreenHeight = 768
ScreenWindowed = 0
ScreenColourDepth = 32
ScreenRefresh = 60
ScreenZDepth = 24
 
SoundLibrary = dsound
SoundMixFreq = 22050
SoundMasterVolume = 255
SoundChannels = 32
SoundMusicChannels = 8
SoundHW3D = 0
SoundSwapStereo = 0
SoundMemoryUsage = 1
SoundBufferSize = 512
SoundDSP = 0
 
RenderSmoothLines = 1
RenderBorders = 1
RenderCityNames = 1
RenderCountryNames = 0
RenderWater = 2
RenderRadiation = 0
RenderLowDetailWorld = 0
RenderObjectTrails = 1
RenderLobbyEffects = 1
 
NetworkMetaServerPort = 5009
NetworkServerPort = 5010
NetworkClientPort = 5011
NetworkUsePortForwarding = 0
NetworkTrackSynchronisation = 0
 
InterfaceTooltips = 1
InterfacePopupScale = 7.00
InterfaceSideScrolling = 1
InterfaceCameraDragging = 1
InterfacePanicKey = 1
InterfaceStyle = default.txt
InterfaceZoomSpeed = 1.00
 
PlayerName = NewPlayer
ServerName1 = New Game Server
TutorialCompleted = 0
RenderNodes = 0
AmbxEnabled = 0
ScreenAntiAliasing = 1


[frenchfrog]

A) Can you get the technical details of the crash (from the windows crash dialog)?


B) Is there a blackbox.txt file or ERRORLOG.TXT in the Defcon folder (From "[your Steam folder]\steamapps\common\defcon", or if you installed in "Program Files" somewhere buried in "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\[your Steam folder]\steamapps\common\defcon" )?


C)Could the crash be network related? (Allow Defcon in your firewall/antivirus)


D)Update your video drivers


E)You could perhaps try the standalone version installed somewhere else then "Program Files" (like c:\games\defcon).


F)Worse case post a dxdiag?

1)'Start' windows button
2)'Run ...' or the search bar in Vista
3)Type 'dxdiag.exe' in the 'Open' textbox and press the 'Ok' button
4)Once the 'dxdiag.exe' dialog is up, click the 'Save All Information ...' button.
5)Choose a destination for the file (ie: your desktop) and a name for the file (ie: 'dxdiag_info.txt')
6)Post the content of the file here.