Anno 1701 won't load, just get a blue screen!

[Shadow22]

Hi there, i just installed 1701 AD and when i go to play the game it goes through the splash screen, i get the fancy hour glass, then the screen goes to this light blue and the game won't load any farther... I can alt-tab out of it and shut it down with the task manager but i can't get it to work. I have tried patching to version 1.02 but then when i try to run it i get this weird error about a DLL file.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks in advance!