I hope you don't mind my first post being a request for help, but that's what brought me to this forum in the first place. I've full installed Shgun: Total War, and that went fine (with an error message when the time came to switch disks, but that didn't seemt to cause any problems. I could be mistaken, though) but I can't play the game. When I attempt to open it, the splash screen appears, it seems to be loading, then the splash screen disappears and that's that.

I spent hours reading through the tech support section here, but I didn't find anything applicable. I tried some of the solutions posted there, but to no effect.

My system specs, if it helps, are:
CPU: AMD Athlon
Video card:ATI Radeon 8500 (might be LE)
Video driver: Basic windows Radeon 8500 version 6.14.10.6462
RAM: 512 MB
DirectX: 9.0c
OS: Win XP SP2

I've tried running it with all antivirus and antispyware programs disabled, but to no effect.

Any help at all would be great. This is really frustrating