Sacred 2 not quite starting

Forgive me if this has been posted before but I can't get Sacred 2 to run. It gets as far as loading the drivers, engine, etc until; engine ready, executing <autoexec.txt>. The cursor changes then the 'engine ready' line falls off the screen and cursor changes back to regular pointer.

Specs

Amd Quad Phenom @ 2.21 GHZ

Asus mobo M2N-SLI

Nvidia Geforce 9600 GSO 768 vid ram

4 gigs memory

Windows 7 Beta with all the updated drivers

Works ok on my XP Pro machine, same specs

I've tried pretty much everything I can think of, uninstalling, reinstalling ( via download thru Impulse ) reloading all the drivers, etc.

I would like to see this with my system runnig directX 10, 10.1 or whatever it is listed as. DirectX version Dx 11 Using Dxdiag.

Thanks for any help.