<t> I have just purchased and installed this game and the expansion Across the Dniepr Second Edition. When I pressed play it required Directplay to be installed, which I did. Now when I press play the screen goes black for a few seconds and then reverts to the game menu without loading. I attach a ...

Version 1.9.5.12 Distant Worlds Universe Tutorial/Finding Your Way Around
Stand alone
No crash log in that directory. The game exited cleanly when error dialog closed.

I tried running the introductory game with no problem.

While running the first tutorial a dialog pops up with the message 'A new guard stack cannot be created'. Closing the dialog exits the game.