diff --git a/stepmania/src/StepMania.cpp b/stepmania/src/StepMania.cpp
index 665eb52565..58e61694bc 100644
--- a/stepmania/src/StepMania.cpp
+++ b/stepmania/src/StepMania.cpp
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 
 	/* Set up arch hooks first.  This may set up crash handling. */
 	HOOKS = MakeArchHooks();
-
+	HOOKS->Init();
 #if !defined(DEBUG)
 	/* Tricky: for other exceptions, we want a backtrace.  To do this in Windows,
 	 * we need to catch the exception and force a crash.  The call stack is still
diff --git a/stepmania/src/arch/ArchHooks/ArchHooks.h b/stepmania/src/arch/ArchHooks/ArchHooks.h
index 3d765e9bd2..b7d9eb08d5 100644
--- a/stepmania/src/arch/ArchHooks/ArchHooks.h
+++ b/stepmania/src/arch/ArchHooks/ArchHooks.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class ArchHooks
 {
 public:
 	virtual ~ArchHooks() { }
-
+	virtual void Init() { }
 	/*
 	 * Return the general name of the architecture, eg. "Windows", "OS X", "Unix".
 	 */