While I saw a couple of other forum threads about this, none of them seemed directly applicable to my problem or what I am experiencing. I try to run the game and I get a black screen and the entire computer freezes to the point where I cannot even ctlr-alt-delete to the task manager. Another odd point is that the game icon has the windows 7 UAC shield icon on it - i.e. the same shield icon that is next to the run as administrator (an no I don't think this is the medieval shield :P). Every time a try to run it I get a message asking if I want to let the program make a change to my computer - which is a little odd I don't for the other games. I have not yet tried disabling UAC entirely yet but have tried running the game as administrator. Has anyone else experienced this issue?

I am using Windows 7 professional 32-bit on a intel i7 dual-core laptop with Nvidia GeForce GT 330M graphics cards which I believe have the most recent drivers.