I just downloaded this game and was getting the "Failed to initialize display hardware" error. I was browsing through some of the solutions when I realized that for some reason there was not settings.txt file for the game in the appropriate location. Once I created the settings.txt file in the appropriate folders (had to create the Electronic Arts and Dead Space folders) the game fired right up.
Go to:
Users/"your user name"/AppData/Local/Electronic Arts/Dead Space
and created a settings.txt file
I found one someone had shared and used that to get my game started:
Audio.AltNameColor = false Audio.MusicVol = 1.00000000 Audio.Output = 0 Audio.SFXVol = 1.00000000 Audio.Subtitles = true Audio.VoiceVol = 1.00000000 Control.AimAssistEnabled = true Control.AimingPosition = 1 Control.ControllerSensitivity = 2 Control.FireButtonControls = true Control.InvertX = false Control.InvertY = false Control.MouseSensitivity = 0.20000000 Control.Shock = true Controls.AcL.X = 0x1105FF7E Controls.AcL.Y = 0x0003100E Game.PDiff = 1 Game.Played = 1 Misc.LastSaveSlot = 0 QualityOptions.ActorMotionBlur = true QualityOptions.Bloom = true QualityOptions.Blur = true QualityOptions.ConfigType = 1 QualityOptions.Decals = true QualityOptions.Distortion = true QualityOptions.DoF = true QualityOptions.EdgeAA = true QualityOptions.Flare = true QualityOptions.Glow = true QualityOptions.HighLightQuality = true QualityOptions.ManipColor = true QualityOptions.ShaderQuality = 2 QualityOptions.Shadows = 2 Window.Fullscreen = true Window.Gamma = 0.50000000 Window.Height = 1080 Window.Hz = 60 Window.Left = 0 Window.MessageNotification = 1 Window.State = 0 Window.Top = 0 Window.VSync = false Window.Width = 1920
