Just purchased the game and received my activiation code within about 5 minutes. I put it in on the start up page and got the activation activated screen :cheer: Oh happy days!
Then when I fired the game up I cot this message:
"Creative device Failed
D3DERR_Device Lost"
Windows (7) then went through its check problems and said the program didn't work.

And went away leaving me staring at my desk top
I then noticed that SOW was sitting minimized in my tray. I double clicked on it and
:silly: :blink:

It worked! Unfortunately I still had it in HITS mode and I want to look around and get the feel for the game before I try that so I exited out and will try again. I'll let you know if I get that same message or if it was a one time thing.
Update: I have been back into the game a couple of times to test it out (old habits die hard

) and no more error message the game plays fine.
From one of the old team to the new team: Great job guys.