Same here, anyone got a solution???

load and crashes.........HAD same problem untill I upgraded to the 1.02 patch.

the solution my friends is so simple i couldn't believe it, have a look at the ea support site, it tells you to lower your sound acceleration. run dxdiag from the run command then select your sound tab and set hardware acceleration to none/basic and it should work just dandy

It worked for me and everything is running fine

anyone know if this works with 1.5?