When i start chris sawyers locomotion, it fails and says failed to initialize graphics system

Its quite an old game, Step one is running it in Compatibility mode. Try xp.

Other then actually getting into the game files and editing what needs to be updated for it to run on Direct X 11, well... Good luck with that.

Open Windows Explorer and use notepad to see which executable program it is trying to invoke. You can manually open it as a workaround.

Dear, it has been reported by many users that this game is correctly running on Windows 7 without any hack or smth. BTW if problems may happen, there's also a feature called "XP mode" supported in Win 7 Ulti, which should ensure alost 100% compatibility with XP
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Peter_Rei

Simple answer, No. When you purchase this game, the installation code is yours and is only to be used for one device at a time. There certainly are website out there that will try to market cracks or code generators but mostly these websites are LOADED with viruses and will try to scam you or load your computer with spyware. BEWARE!
Best idea: Use THIS EBAY SEARCH and re-purchase the game for under $5.00.... How's that?!

For the initialization failed you need to uninstall/reinstall your Studio 11 and make sure that you followed this procedure.

http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=216531&Hilite=uninstall+reinstall

You need to uninstall and Reinstall the particular game.. or try system restore for quick resolution

Hi, had similar problem myself, the problems are either you don't have a sufficient graphics or video card or you don't have or are not up to date with OpenGL drivers. The trio 32/64 graphic card is not one that is most likely to run with this game, because i had one for my old machine and came up with exactly the same problem, i will give you OpenGL updates but my solution is get yourself a better graphics card for Quake III Arena

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/18800 - This is the site for the update, scroll until you see 'Download' should be under Additional Requierments

This is the minimum in Graphics cards that will run with Quake III
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All 3dfx chips and higher
nVIDIA Riva 128 and 128ZX and higher
Matrox G200 & G400and higher
ATI Rage Pro & Rage128 and higher
nVIDIA Riva TNT and TNT2 and higher
Intel i740and higher
nVIDIA GeForce 256 and higher

Hope This Helps

This might help to fix the problem

http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=221975&Hilite=initialization+failed

Should be in the documentation that came with the game. Probably like a product ID.