New Game does not load

[rmutt4m]

I just purchased AACW, and was initially able to run the tutorial. I then attempted to load the fifth game (and ultimately the third), but the game does not load, just sits on the Main Menu while chewing up CPU cycles.

This is on an XP SP2 AMD Athlon 3200 Box with 512 MB RAM and a GeForce FX 5500 Video Card. Thinking the problem might be the RAM (although it is within the specs), I installed on a Vista Intel Pentium M 2.26 box with 2GB RAM--with exactly the same results, except that now on neither box can I run even the tutorial.

I let both run for over half an hour, but all that happens is it remains on the Main Menu while Task Manager indicates it is consuming 97% CPU time.

Any help?

[Pocus]

Do you have in your list of applications running in the background either norton antivirus or an anti-malware (ad-aware for example)? Disconnect from the internet, then shut down both and try again. Do not forget to reboot before connecting again.

[rmutt4m]

I've shut down Norton and don't have AdAware. I even used MSCONFIG to disable all Symantec services and

startups. I am not running Ad Aware.


Following is a list of all processes:

AACW.exe
taskmgr.exe
svchost.exe
explorer.exe
services.exe
ctfmon.exe
csrss.exe
winlogon.exe
EmuPatchMixDSP.exe
AluSchedulerSvc.exe
lsass.exe
CTHELPER.exe
cidaemon.exe
alg.exe
type32.exe
spoolsv.exe
nvsvc32.exe
wdfmgr.exe
cisvc.exe
rundll32.exe
PSIService.exe
LxrJD31s.exe
smss.exe
PIFSvc.exe
MsPMSPSv.exe
System
System Idle Process

[Pocus]

Sorry I missed somehow this message, but you send me a mail (rightly). I answered you about some 2 processes to shut down.