After I hit play it gos to a black windowed screen, I still get audio and I can hear the mouse click moveing over the options in the stat menu but I only see black, how do I fix this?

Thanks!

No one is going to be able to assist you based on what you wrote. Where is the standard system hardware summary, and routine software environment description?

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1123068-what-that-dxdiag-thing-includes/