I had no problems at all downloading or playing v.81av2, but with v 1.0, its been nothing but a pain. Before I installed v1.0, I deleted everything from the earlier version including R:TW itself. I completely did a complete reinstallation of R:TW with 1.3 and 1.5 patches. I then downloaded v1.0 from Filefront. I followed the instuctions and I also rebooted the computer after installation. When I launched a game, the EB intro screen came on but after 2-3 minutes, the screen would go black, the music from R:TW would start for a moment then stop. The EB music would kick in while screen remained black.
After 4-5 minutes, the loading bar would appear and when loaded, the EB settings (options) screen would appear with nation icons / world map from following screen kinda of merged some what together and the screen would be flashing/stuttering. I tried setting my options to the lowest settings, thinking it my help, but nothing changed. I continued on into starting a campaign to see if the rest of the game was impaired, and had a ctd. I've uninstalled everything and started over, but the same thing happened again. I used a bug eliminator program, but that didn't fix anything.