Freeze at initial screen

**Little Nicky** · December 17, 2007, 07:16 PM

I'm sure it was a clean install. Whenever I start it up it freezes at the first screen shown.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · December 18, 2007, 02:18 AM

How long have you waited? It may take up to ten minutes...

**Little Nicky** · December 18, 2007, 05:51 AM

Well, it would say Not Responding on the Task Manager screen. I have a pretty high end PC too. Also, its not the small Rome: TW little box screen, its the first full screen with Europa Barbarum on it.

**Admetos** · December 18, 2007, 11:10 AM

Well, EB takes RTW right to the limit, so it'll take a while on most computers. Don't try and Alt+Ctrl+Del out, just leave it for a while. The first time you load it up, it'll take a bit longer as a result of the game creating a few files, so that could be your problem. Either way, it'll always take alot longer than vanilla to load.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · December 18, 2007, 06:36 PM

Windows inaccurately calls just about everything that is processing 'Not Responding'. I have a pretty good system and it takes about 5 minutes to start up.

**joerd9** · December 20, 2007, 05:44 AM

On my current engine it's pretty quick, but on the system I had before, it took awfully long. I thought it had freezed at first too, but then I read about long loading times, started EB, went away, checked back half an hour later et voilà!