Turorial runs, actual game dies.

[hydravelsen]

Hi there. I just bought this game today. The tutorial runs flawlessly - both strategic map and battle scenes work as intended. When I start either the twelve races map or any custom map, however, the game attempts to start then grinds to a halt as it is loading, finally resulting in a graphical artifact in the middle of the screen (what would normally be the manilla folder-shaped start button for a proper game) having an after-image of the game setup screen. The game locks hard and I have to ctrl-alt-delete to kill the process in order to regain control of my computer.

Dxdiag attached.

[Andrew Loveridge]

There is a new driver for your video card that could help here;
http://xpdrivers.com/ati/_2_135301.cfm

and did you try #2 from this post?

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=2307471