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It tells me when i launch the game that it cannot start video hardware restart Deadspace. It does this every time i try it. It is the free Deadspace game they are giving away now. I have windows 8 a Geforce GTX 765m Asus laptop. 

In your video card's control panel you can specify that your GPU is to be used when starting this game. That will prevent your computer possibly trying to use your on-board video hardware which likely does not meet the System Requirements.

Just F.Y.I. :

• For Windows XP (SP2) or Vista
• 2.8 GHz processor or equivalent
• 1 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better (7300, 7600 GS, and 8500 are below minimum system requirements)
• ATI X1600 Pro or better (X1300, X1300 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)
• 256MB Video Card and Shader Model 3.0 required • The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
• At least 7.5GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for saved games.

NOTE: INTERNET CONNECTION, ONLINE AUTHENTICATION, AND END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY. MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.EA.COM.

Integrated Chipsets may experience issues.

Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn’t listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all.

Check this post for the reported solution to the "unable to initialize display hardware" error message: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dead-Space-1/could-not-initialize-display-hardware-dead-space/m-p/2657866#M188