OK, I'm stuck. I've just spent the last three hours trying to solve it. I've tried everything sugested in the first post here:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/174432

My Video Drivers are up to date, dated: 6th may 2009.

I tried uninstalling the game, re-installing the Video drivers then the game, and yes I cleaned out all the files for the game manually.

The Game is fully patched

Direct X is up to date.

A copy of the game that runs fine on my work PC, which is isntalled on a USB flash drive does the same thing as the copy on my home hard drive. At first the game would crash after a blank screen and say the display driver wasn't working. It was at that point I updated my drivers. I don't have any mods isntalled. Now the game blank screen's and stops working compleatly.

I left the game for ten minutes to see if it did anything, it didn't. I couldn't even Ctrl+alt+Del out. I could only use the power button to turn my PC off.

My system:

Dual core AMD 2.52 Ghz

4 Gig of RAM

NVIDA Geforce 7600GT

I'm off to a LAN do in a few hours and we wanted to try a game or two, so any help is appreciated. Thanks.

PS: why Isn't Firefox working properly with this forum? My English must be terrible! Yeah, spell check has made me lazy