Stop at load screen and then failed to load sound problem

[Lord Nicco]

Hey I finally managed to install EB1.1 without any problems it seems, but now when i load up the game it stops on the brown EB load up screen. I waited for 20 mins for the game to proceed but it didnt. So to get back to desktop i used the old alt+tab trick and then when I tried to get back to EB1.1 it opened an error box saying 'failed to load sound database'

Can anyone help, I had no issues when I was installing and my copy of RTW is patched and clean. I have RTR Platinum but that is independant and does not interfere with Vanilla

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Does RTW vanilla load fine?