If you have sailed the seas, and installed the game - you can skip this step.

First you'll need to install Driver San Francisco from Steam or Ubisoft Connect. If you bought it on Steam, the game is tied to the Ubisoft Connect client, and requires a Ubisoft Account to start.

Locate the Driver.exe file. On steam, its inside -

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Driver San Francisco
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Driver San Francisco

To fix the launching issues: Right-click on driver.exe, go to "Properties," then the "Compatibility" tab. Check the box "Disable full-screen optimisations". Make sure you clicked "Apply". Then OK. You may also try "Run in 640x480" and "Run as an administrator" if this fails. Compatibility mode for Windows 7" may help.

Exit any application that uses an overlay, or screen recorder in game. Such as, Discord overlay, OBS, Reshade, RivaTuner, MSI Afterburner Statistics, Fraps, NVIDIA overlay, AMD overlay, even Windows Night Light. (steam overlay and ubisoft overlay is fine)

You need Microsoft's official Visual C++ Redistributables to ensure the game can communicate with Windows properly. To make it easier, here is a pack which includes all the Redistributables:

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/

Run the .bat file, and it installs all the Redistributables from the pack.

OS: Windows XP SP3
CPU: Dual Core @2.6GHz
GPU: Direct x9 Capable - 256 MB - Shader 4.0
RAM: 1 GB
Space: 10 GB