black screen when launching

[tabemono]

Hi, I have reinstalled the game a few times already making sure I followed the installation guide each time, and when I launch the game, it just shows a black screen.

I have made sure the eqg files that shouldn't be there aren't, made sure I extracted the zip in the right place, and set the shortcut to run in admin with compatibility on. Still no dice.

The only thing I haven't tried yet is not installing into program files. Could that be the issue? or maybe it's a multi-core issue? I am running on an i7 on win7 64-bit. Not sure what to make of this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions/fixes to resolve this? Any help would be much appreciated.