Drama with Emperor on WinXP

[BadSeed78]

Hi, im hoping someone can help me, i've read alot of the 'problems' people are having with this game. Im having a problem too. I installed Emperor. Ran Auto-Update to 1.09 (i believe). Launched the game, the EA logo comes up as does the westwood globe. But once that happens. Black Screen like its loading the next part, 1 or 2 brief flickers. Game drops back to desktop. My setup is MSI 6380E Kt333 Mainboard, Amd Athlon XP2100, 256 PC2700 DDR Kingston, Asus v8440 Geforce 4 4400 128 DDR. SBLive Soundcard. I can run dxdiag and/or ea ez if you need me to. Please reply. im looking forward to playing this excellent game and get involved in the 'Duniverse' :)

[Nyarlathotep]

Please run the dxdiag and ez and attach the outputs to your reply. It'll show me important system info.

[BadSeed78]

I have everything running perfectly fine now 8). After Updating Winxp with service pack 1 and reinstalling the game. It ran perfectly fine. I spent 48 hours trying to solve this problem. Westwood didnt provide much help at all. Shows how much they really care as long as their making their money. I know its an old game now. But still you think they'd show some interest in keeping up to date patches for guys like us who really enjoy this game.

[Nyarlathotep]

Cool, happy gaming :)