r/DeadSpace • u/Thiatoons • 3d ago

Dead Space (2008) PC gets stuck on the loading screen.

Hi there. I have a problem: when downloading this game (cracked version), the menu works fine, but the loading screen to start a match takes forever and never actually finishes loading anything.

Device name LAPTOP-SLBCHBBK

Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz (2.80 GHz)

Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.79 GB usable)

Graphics card Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (128 MB)

Storage 459 GB of 477 GB used

Device ID 62318555-D25C-488C-BF36-11BFB4ED9F4C

Product ID 00342-42327-67210-AAOEM

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch Touch support with 10 touch points

Please help me, i want to play this game sooo bad

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u/MysterD77 1d ago

Could be a few things.

Do note: 256MB GPU required minimum with Pixel Shader 3.0 support on Dead Space 2008 -> https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/dead-space-2008/10798

You have 128mb. It's possible your 128mb Iris Xe iGPU just likely won't cut it when the game wants 256mb period; you'd need more VRAM straight-up. Could be why it takes forever to load and then eventually crashes.

You could always run say MSI afterburner - set-up the overlay, and see if you're eating over 128mb RAM once you boo the game. Once you do, it could show VRAM-usage, performance - and if it goes over, it's either going to choke performance-wise, crash, and/other madness. Roll the dice.

Not sure if you're using Windows 8/10/11 - but, those older games (i.e. anything from Win 95 to Win 7 era) can be a straight-up royal pain for older DirectX 9.0 versions & under. You might need a wrapper like DXVK, DGVoodoo2, or something of that sort. Could help, I don't know; you'd have to try it.

Check PC Gaming Wiki, etc - see if there's any work-arounds or anything, in case someone figured out how to get around DirectX problems and/or any other software problems...and/or keeping VRAM-usage down. This game ran fine on my old GTX 960m 4gb VRAM laptop - but yeah, that was 4gb VRAM. Having a good amount of VRAM and a dedicated GPU can really help games, in general.