It works for me.
Would be helpful if you provided us with more details:
What kind of settings (PC and MTW) are you using? What's your PC hardware? What exactly happens when you try to load the game? Are there any error pop-ups? Is there anything in the crash.txt if there is such a file in the MTW root folder?
>> couldnt get mtw vi or mtw to load at all once i loaded it
just does not cut it.
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