Ian

Tried running with the minimum programs listed above. . . no go. I have a sony drive and no service packs installed. I'm not really in to installing custom drivers. . . I value the performance boost my current drivers give me in other apps. Any other ideas?

I already tried the compatibility mode (all of the options) which made no difference. I just tried the +w (what does that do?) option and reducing the screen resolution and the problem persisted. I'm totally stumped. . . but again thanks for the help.

It's a fresh install of emporer on a fresh install of XP. . . or atleast it was. Emperor was one of the first programs I installed on my new comp. No service packs installed, and I've since uninstalled/reinstalled Emporer to no avail. Any known issues with Radeon cards Sound blaster Audigy cards? I think it must be hardware/driver issue, because I was able to run Emporer just fine on my old system with essentially identical software.

The problem occured before I installed DX9. When I first booted up my machine it was one of the first programs I tried running. I'll have a look through that thread. Thanks for your help!

other than ZA and AVG nothing. Other than that just standard OS stuff. . .

yeah, sorry. It made no difference.

ok, attached the results of the dxdiag. . . tried running with ZA and AVG turned off entirely but change.[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

I'm running Zone Alarm and AVG antivirus. . . Emperor ran fine on my old system with those installed. Sorry, what is a DXDiag?

I'm trying to run emperor on my new computer. Everything installed fine. I autoupdated fine. However, whenever I try to run the game, it brings up the opening window my screen goes blank and then cuts back into windows as though nothing happened. I'm running Windows XP and I have the most recent version of Emperor. I have the newest drivers for my video card (Radeon 9800 pro). I also have directx 9. Any ideas on what I can do?