Hi Vecko - thanks for your response
I've tried from the install folder and from the shortcut.
- The install folder gives the non-responsive behaviour in my previous post.
- The shortcut appears to default to an auto-updater which then hangs (see attached screen shot) even after patching to 1.2
The game launches just fine from 1.2. The problems appear to arise after I configure the Generic Patcher / restore the TWoS 1.04 Snapshot.
The strange thing is the first time I installed TWOS it worked flawlessly - I even had a go at tweaking preferences in OptionsFileEditorViewer. It stopped working yesterday (probably through something I did!)
Clearly Neptune ordained this newcomer was being to be far too cocky for his own good and threw this at me!