I did create a new profile. Hurray for redoing all of my setup options. My current command line, even changed to accurately reflect my homeworld 2 location: "D:\Program Files\Sierra\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\Homeworld2.exe" -mod PLANETPACK.Big,SWSOUND.Big,SWMUSIC.Big,GENHODS.Big,SHIPHODS.Big,CORE.Big,OLDSHIPS.Big -luatrace -hardwareCursor Copied and pasted right from this site, with appropriate file location adjustments. Quotations added because it wouldn't work otherwise. My target line looks exactly like a previous poster's... Y8. Hurray for the D:\ drive. The Imperials just don't like to work. I've used different maps, I've tried letting the computer be the Imperials... nothing. During the universe load, the game simply stops and I am returned to my desktop with no game running (and no error message). I've run previous versions of Warlords perfectly fine on my machine.