Since my brother re-installed Windows XP on our computer, I can't play JJ2 anymore. The installation works completely fine, but when I click on "Jazz Jackrabbit 2" in the start menu I get an access violation right after the small purple picture. Normally the Epic logo would appear, but I get this access violation instead. I've tried a lot of things like activating the compatibility mode or running the game in windowed mode, but nothing works. Re-installing doesn't solve the problem either.

Last christmas, we bought a new computer and JJ2 worked fine on it. However, that computer somehow crashed pretty often when starting Windows, until the whole computer died and my brother had to do anything again. He re-installed Windows and made all that stuff like downloading and installing Direct-X, etc. The PC now doesn't crash anymore when starting, but instead from time to time just freezes, and hangs so I have to reboot it (I hate my PC). But while JJ2 worked fine before the big crash, it doesn't since my brother re-installed Windows. I just keep getting Access Violations right at the start, whatever I do.

Like I said, I'm using Windows XP (Home Edition) and a Radeon 9800 graphics card. I have JJ2 1.24 aswell as 1.20, but installed both in the same directory. I have installed Direct X 9.

I have performed a search on the word "access violation", but I found nothing that helped me.

Did anybody face that problem before or does anyone have an idea how to fix it?