You need newest nVidia drivers for graphics card and 1.09 patch of course. I had same problem. Just dusted off my copy of Emperor, installed, and BANG! Stuck in 2 sec after running the game. Then I started to looking for a possible solution to my problem, and found it on a nVidia forum. New drivers allow Emperor to start with no problems. Fix apply to all 8800 series cards (I don't know about 8600 thou). I myself owning 8800 GTS EVGA 640 MB. I running now Emperor nearly without problems (driver version for XP/2000 - 158.19). Nearly because max resolutions is set @ 1024*768 and I cannot increase it, but old 5950XT on AGP with old MB was able to show 1280*1024 without problems. But well, better 1024*768 than nothing! I hope it helps. My specs btw: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz 2 GB RAM (2*1 Geil 800MHz) XP Pro SP2 EVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB SB X-Fi EVGA 860i motherboard (AR version)
