Windows 7 and SOWGAE

[JohnTargus]

I have both the Gettysburg Anniversary Edition and Waterloo, using Windows 7 with an Nivida GS770 card, 1Gb on the board, 16GB main memory and after a few recent updates to Windows 7, I now cannot run the games at all. All I get are the splash screens and then nothing, just 'initializing.
Tried uninstall and reinstall but that does not work. Anyone have any Ideas why this issue has suddenly come up?
I'm tempted to load one of the games onto my Toshiba Laptop, but it has integrated Graphics card and might not work right.
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[zakblood]

add the exe of the game to your Anti Virus and firewall program, to make sure check the logs of these to see if it was one of them which was to blame.

That usually means a 3rd party program, like an Internet security programs, is interfering with the game or update installation.

run the game from a admin account and use full admin permissions.

please make sure all game pre requisite are installed with the game, even if you think or fully know there are already installed, it will only over write, and it may be that you have a older or newer version of these where as the game in question may need a certain version.

please make sure you are running the latest game version and have up to date drivers installed on your pc,

If you have the original version. So you'll need to update it from the Internet.
Please note that you'll only need the last update, as the updates are comprehensive.