I just installed the game and there are no words or anything except icons on the menus.  I didn't even know the button I kept hitting was to update rather than exit.  I doubt it's a hardware problem but here are my specs: [email protected], XFX 8800GT @ 575/1400/850, 4GB of 800MHz RAM, and Vista Home Premium x64.

I apologize ahead of time if I missed this in the sticky, sometimes I have selective reading.