Some time ago I bought the game "Call of Juarez 2 - Bound in Blood."

The annoying problem, which cost me lots of time and despair, was a black screen right after the click on the icon. I couldn’t return to windows but press the reset button. I use Windows 7 (64bit) on my machine and thought this would be the reason so I read lots of forums but nothing worked for me.

Suggested solutions were: right click on the shortcut (or the .exe file in the game folger) and go to settings. In compatibility mode choose Windows Vista SP2 and disable visual themes and disable desktop composition.

All didn’t work for me but sometimes it is just too simple!
I use a firewall (Comodo). One day it crashed on system startup. –and the game suddenly started.

Don’t know why I didn’t think earlier of it, but well… maybe it helps if I post it here. So: Shutdown your firewall before the first start of the game. (Later you can switch between the game and windows by pressing Alt+Tab and change firewall settings.) Now the game runs perfect, even without compatibility mode.

Enjoy the game!