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If you're even still around these days I found a pretty consistent fix for this issue on my system. I'm not saying it'll work for you but if you're still keen to play the game after 2 years.
All I did was right-click the .exe in the main game folder and set the compatibility mode to Windows Vista Service Pack 1.