(EDIT - Read the first post incase you are experiencing a similar problem, and I have since posted the resolution directly below in #2). Hi guys, Very strange this, but when launching SB PRO PE (latest version 2.460) nothing happens for about 10 minutes then it springs to life and loads as normal... Up until yesterday it launched immediately, and has done since I received it. I've rebooted and its the same, each time it takes AGES to launch. Once I had a similar error that Vacquero received in his post (only once though): http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbforums/showthread.php?t=13103 However, I too have the latest DirectX, drivers etc. As I say, it was working perfectly well yesterday (doing the UAV testing), but today its not behaving. Very odd. Rebooting makes no difference, and there is nothing appearing in the event logs to point to a system problem. Any ideas? I'm running on a laptop, Windows XP Home, 4GB memory, 512MB graphics etc. The game runs very smoothly on this system and only really suffers FPS hits when there is a lot going on-screen, but other than that it holds 45-60 most of the time. I can't see it's hardware or driver related. Thanks, Quagmire