Hi guys.

Ive been playing the total war series since Shogun was first released and have been a bit of a browser of TW forums ever since. Funnily enough I just realised that I didnt even have an account on this particular forum yet!

Anyhoo Ive been thinking about getting back into the TW series and stumbled across Empire: Total War the other day. Im not much of a Steam fan but decided to bite the proverbial bullet and reinstall steam. So far no problems. I also d/l the demo from the offical link etc.

Problem is that the demo hangs on the opening splash/ TM scene after starting up, if that makes sense. The only thing I can do is go to Task Manager and end the Empire.exe process, otherwise it will hang indefinitely, using 100% of my CPU.

My rig isnt great, but it does meet the minimal reqs for the game. I thought at least it would run the demo. Anyone else have this problem?

I had a quick look through the Steam and the Install stickies but couldnt find the answer. Admittedly I havnt read all 2000 pages that are in both threads.