Thanks for responding so quickly. Yes, I have DirectX 9. I also checked to make sure that I have the latest graphics driver - turns out that I do. I tried renaming the movies folder to see if I could get anywhere, but no go. Below is the dxdiag file output. Hope it helps. Thanks. ------------------ ...

No movies, no videos. Just opening menu with "Play Great Battles of Rome", "Update Game", "Install DirectX", etc. Try to play and get an error message: "THCGBoR.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Installed th...