Empire Earth doesn't start at all. - I've already tried the "solution" from this forum without success.
1. Starting Empire Earth only turns the screen to black.
(to be precise it turns black and when the error occurs it turns to grey, but there's no error-sound)
2. After hitting a key a Error-Window appears:
EE 1.04:
"Empire Earth.Exe - Application Error"
"The instruction at "0x008d5702" referenced at "0x00000004"". The memory could not be "read"
EE 2.0:
"Empire Earth.Exe - Application Error"
"The instruction at "0x00b0923d" referenced at "0x00000004"". The memory could not be "read"

My system:
Win XP SP3
DirectX 9.0c (March 2009)
Empire Earth 1.04 (also tried the newest patch 2.0 - same error)
Q6600 @ 3.0 GHz
4 GByte DDR2
GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (Driver: 182.06 - also tried an older one [169.21])
Gigabyte P35 DS-4 Rev. 2 (BIOS F12)
I tried the following:
Reinstalling EE (with cleaned reg)
Patches 1.04 & 2.0
Moving the intro movies so they could not be loaded
Updating DirectX
Different Resolutions (via Regedit, Astray+ or on Desktop)
Compatibility Modes (Win 2000 - the others dont work)
Now ... I don't know what to do to get it up and running -.-
Can anyone provide help or ideas to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance!