Mage Knight Apocalypse - Startup crash

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Hey, I recently bought the game.. installed it and updated to the latest patch. However every time I try to play I would get the game splash screen and then the screen would flicker and it would return to the desktop but still have the game running in the background, the only way to get out would be to ctrl-alt-del, the game would not be responding.

I have updated my vid card and sound card drivers but still no luck. I have disabled all third party programes and non essential processes to see if that helps but still nothing...

Ive found through searches that a few other ppl have had the same problems but no one has as yet figured out how to fix it. The game development/support team is just as useless as they don't even reply to other ppl's threads on their own site.

Any help or insite would be greatly appreciated.