I have the same problem. It ran for a day or two and then one day I hit "play" and it goes to the taleworlds and paradox cutscenes and blacks screens and says "blah blah blah is not responding"? I just got it and i run it on windows 7 64 bit my specs are:
AMD Anthlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.20 GHz
Ram: 2 GB
System type: 64-bit operating system
Please Help