Problem solved - it was the new nvidia driver for the 9500 gt on my computer. A few other games also had problems initialising the driver. Rolled back the driver and all is well. Version that does not work is 260.89 dated 2010.10.18.

Yes, the error log has the following: CPU String: GenuineIntel Stepping ID = 7 Model = 4 Family = 15 CLFLUSH cache line size = 64 APIC Physical ID = 1 CPU Brand String: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz Cache Size = 1024K UNKNOWN TAGS IN: Config\system.txt Unknown Tag: MOVIEMODE Unknown Tag: DYNAMIC...

The updater appeared to work - I have a screen that says 'New Expansion Announced", "Update 1.4 - download new FREE campaign", etc. Problem is when I click the OK box, the BA start up box disappears and so does the mouse pointer. Two things I know I did prior to the update - bought Ar...

Neil,

Both the Medway scenario that came with the update and the one at your link give a 'invalid file' error or some such when I try to open them in game. I have no idea why.

Jarhead - I'm guessing you have a microsoft mouse. Try updating the mouse driver. I had some odd issues with some games until I did that. turned out the way MS set up the zoom feature in the previous driver caused graphics issues.