I installed Star Wars Starfighter about six months ago, and it worked ok for a while, with a few glitchy graphics problems every now and then, but over all very good. Then I uninstalled and now I re-installed it (instalation went smoothly) and when I click play from the main menue an alert comes up that says,

"Display Error:
Your 3d adapter is not able to initalize the resolution and color depth selected. Please try updating your video drivers or lowering your display resolution/color depth."

Then I click OK and another, larger alert comes up that says,
"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library:
Runtime Error! Program... Am Files\lucastarts\star wars starfighter\game\eruopa.exe abnormal program termination"
Then another one, this time the illegal operation alert saying the program will be shut down Details:

"EUROPA caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff9dfff.
Registers:
EAX=00d7fe38 CS=017f EIP=bff9dfff EFLGS=00000206
EBX=817a291c SS=0187 ESP=00d7fc88 EBP=00d7fe38
ECX=00000187 DS=0187 ESI=817a291c FS=703f
EDX=00d7fe28 ES=0187 EDI=10a00200 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
cc a1 e0 9c fc bf 8b 00 66 64 f7 05 1c 00 00 00
Stack dump:
00940000 817a2960 817c1338 8177ff24 00002843 c16d9d20 00db0700 00eba0f0 00000001 00ec0d04 00eb2fb8 00eb2fb8 00eb2fc0 00000032 00000006 00eb2fc0 "

So, ive been looking into this for a while. When I ask the game to check my system, it says everything should be operational, it seems my driver for my 3d adapter is working alright and ive tried playing around with the refresh rate and performance settings on my RIVA. Anyone have any ideas? Anything would be much appreciated as im barley computer literate.

Your system is pretty weak by today's standards, but it does appear to meet the game requirements:

http://www.lucasarts.com/products/starwarsstarfighter/systeminfo/pc.htm

My question to you is why did you uninstall the game in the 1st place? To me, that indicates there was a problem before this one.

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz
768MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7
Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro

Good question. As I remember I uninstalled a bunch of stuff from this computer becaue my Aunt was useing it for a while and I didnt want all of my stuff getting in her way or slowing her down. I dont think I uninstalled it because of any problem with the game, that I can think of.