battle4dune

i have had this game ages and had the urge to play it yesterday but when i tried it loaded the splash screen then went to the desk top not even a black screen :'(. i have tried uninstalling it and now i cant reinstall it. i installed this fix ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/emperor/update/EMPENGINSTFIX10.ZIP from this thread http://dune2k.com/forum/index.php?topic=15360.0 and followed the instructions exactly but