I have the same problem. I am not at home so I can't send my DXDiag info. I don't have Norton installed, and I am sure I had EBFD working on my system before under XP, but I since then I've replaced my video card (Geforce 3 to ATI Radeon 9800), my sound card (SB Live to Audigy), and DX (from 7 to 9b). I suspect it's a video card issue or a codec problem. I've tried a noCD crack (in case it was copy protection), several different codec packs, newer drivers for my video card, and disabling my sound card in DX. I tried all the different compatability modes and even downloaded the Compatibility Tools from MS (which did have a listing for EBFD, fyi). I cannot get it to load - splash screen, then I see Dune in my taskbar and Game.exe using 99% of my CPU, but that's about it.