The exact same thing happens to me, except the screen doesn't go black. It's just the splash, then the desktop. I have a PIII 667 Mhz with 128 MB RAM and a 32 MB NVidia TNT2 video card. It was working perfectly two hours ago. Now, all of a sudden, I can't even start the game. It's been less than a week since I bought this game. Now, I have no sound on my comp AT ALL.

Thank you,
Raptor013

I have the same exact problem. We seem to share an SB Live! card in common.

Make sure all your drivers are up-to-date. And be sure to check out previous threads.. I think some people have had probs with the SB Live cards and they have fixes for them. So check out other threads.

Umm..yeah, i was wrong. I DONT have a SB Live!. My old comp did. I've got a Vibra 128

Someone else had the same problem with the Vibra 128. Check one of the other threads.

I probably should mention that i fixed this problem a few days ago?

Heres what i had to do:
Take the movies out of start up by removing the lines of code from Freelance.ini
I then had to load up regedit, and delete something....then i installed a WMPDIST.exe from the FL cd. I still cant whatch the moives, but everything eles works fine

Well I fixed mine. I went to Data, them movies, and removed fl_intro and da_logo_final. Worked perfectly.