And if you had no mods installed?
I have this problem i think.
I cant alt tab out, because everything is still black there.
trie to run in in xp sp2 compatibility mode, and got the cursur to show up when i alt tabbed out.
Strange thing is once i ctrl alt delte the vista alternatives show up, and i started the activity thingie.
Closed the activity window as everything showed up again, and cliked on the minemised sins bar, and now for some strange reason the game loads compleatly.
Have yet to run a game so dont know if it will crash.
It is a new game and i have yet to play it, downloaded the online poath, and the darned program and patched with that too.
(bloody huge file, but atleast way better then wow)
As for the sysem.
Vista 64 home basic sp1 4gb ram ati radeon HD 4870
Dunno how much video ram, but enough i think.
(pretty new system)