I'm not sure what is up. I was playing fine yesterday. Last night, I paused the game, minimized the window (did not exit the game) checked my email, then went to bed. My laptop, when closed, hibernates. So a little while ago, I opened my 'puter, woke it up, and maximized the VV2 window. The game was lagging a lot, so I exited the game (using alt-f4 because the game was lurching along). The computer seemed slow so I decided to just restart. Everything booted back up, and I attempted to reopen VV2. No dice -- I get an hourglass for about 10 secs, then that goes away leaving just the black screen. It gets stuck there. If I try to exit (either alt-f4 or using the windows button to bring up the taskbar and rt-click & choose close) I get the dialog box that the program is not responding and have to choose "end now" or "cancel".

At this point I have restarted 2 more times. I have restored an earlier savegame. And I have even done a system restore to yesterday. Still VV2 is not working.

If anyone has any ideas please give them to me. I'm pretty sure the game is not paused at this point because I didn't see it say paused on the screen before I exited that first time. It was set on 2x and I don't want any disasters.

Please help.....