UTXMP 100% Useless.

I have no idea how or why this even happened, or what I could have done that could have caused this disaster, but now whenever I launch UTXMP, it brings me to the usual UTXMP 3D logo screen with the music playing, and I no matter what buttons I press, I cannot get to the menu at all. Completely clueless about how to solve this, I decided to go ahead and press alt + tab and minimize UTXMP so I can try to diagnose the problem, and guess what? Minimizing UTXMP causes my entire computer to reboot.

A couple of days before all of this had happened, the main menu was accessible and I could play the game just fine, but exiting the game caused a system reboot though; seems like the problem somehow worsened...now the game is not even accessible.

I am stumped; I have been playing this since it just came out; now it suddenly decides to flick me off and stop working. I tried looking in the UTXMP folder and see if the key to access the main menu has been changed, and I cannot even find where the key binds are.

Anyone have any ideas?

If this helps any, I have recently defragged my C and D drive; my 40GB hard drive is divided into two partitions; UT2k4 and UTXMP are installed in the C drive along with all of my other programs and system files; the D drive is what I use for storage. You know, .mp3 files, program installation files, pictures, etc. I have also scanned my entire computer with Adaware SE and got rid of the usual tracking cookies and a couple spyware programs, scanned the computer for viruses with AVG, and checked and repaired my system registry with Registry Medic. I follow this routinely all of the time; nothing happened with any of my games or UTXMP during the first weeks that I played it. This is weird.

Well, I do not play UT2k4 at all; I only have it just for UTXMP, so if this problem is not correctable, I could free 6.06GB from my hard drive. -_-;

Seriously, I need help; the last thing I want is to have 6.06GB of wasted space on my hard drive, especially with a great beta and an awesome game such as UTXMP.

Help!

Reinstalled.

I resentfully went and deleted the UTXMP and reinstalled it; turns out that it worked perfectly; the game now runs like butter again; as much as I hated going through the process of setting up all of the key and speech binds all over again, at least it works now. Good thing I kept a backup .ini file so I did not have to set up all of my graphic and game options again.

Anyways, problem solved.

I have no idea whether or not the problems were caused by the game; I do not think the video drivers were the issue because I reinstalled them and nothing happened; I doubt it has anything to do with hardware since it runs perfectly fine now; it could have been because of my routine system checkups, but I doubt it, since it worked just fine a day or so before, and back then, I did the same routine.

Just a note to the Free Monkey monkies; you guys might want to look into this a bit and check to see if you find anything that could cause this. I doubt this could be a common problem. Might have been just me. ;P

I never heard about that Skip; is the problem strictly about the video card driver alone, or is it something that can be corrected by say, a new UT2k4 patch, for example? o.o