Just tried to fire up my old MTW game on my new-ish HP computer with Vista OS.

1st: Installed MTW, then Viking Expansion: game won't start..get "MTW has stopped working" window

2nd: installed v.201 patch: Game still won't start! Get different error mssg: "Direct3D Error: Unable to Initialize Direct 3d"

Any ideas on how to get MTW to fire up? ...so many problems with this new rig and Vista OS. Strangely, Shogun TW will play almost normally; and no prob with Rome TW or MTWII.

Any help most welcome.