This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Gladia" (Jan 16th 2018, 1:38am) with the following reason: moved to a new thread (no need to necropost a non-answered thread from 2015 ;))
direct 3d is enabled?
pressing "repair client" sometimes help
try update direct x if you have a new installed windows xp, since the game has joystick support (or at least some code to do so in future) it wont start without certain dlls from dx9.0c