Damn, this didn't work either. So, other people have said they run it on windows7, which leads me to believe its an issue with my system. Anyways, I am going to take it back today. Any plans for a sandbox-ish 4x game in the ancient world type games coming in the future? I may check otu the napolean ...

So, I've installed it, uinstalled it, tried to run it from a seperate location, got the file needed it, put it in the game, put it in the system32 file. None of this makes it work, really appreciate the responses, guess I am just sending it back, this company makes games that i like the idea of, I'l...

So, I tried the other solutions you suggested...........still don't work lol so, um if this is a stand alone expansion will it run without having to add files and what not on 7? Not that I am unwilling to do that, just that it didn't work this time and I'd hate to buy ANOTHER game, no matter how coo...

Yeah, i tried it all, nothing seems to make it work and sadly for one reason or another xmode doesn't work on my particular copy of 7, they want me to upgrade to professional lol, love me some video games but not doing that. Anyways, appreciate the time you took to respond, perhaps down the road ya'...

regarding the d3drm.dll issue for windows 7? In any event I couldn't resolve it per the thread dealing with this issue's instructions . If not they appear similar and I was just going to take spartan back and swap it out for this title instead. I have to admit that this has been enormously frustrati...

I read the sticky thread. I added the d3drm.dll file, it stopped giving me that error, but what its doing now is showing a window with a guage on it that says loading in several different languages but never gets passed that. It just stops responding from that point. I bought the game new off of ama...