What error did you get?

Memory?  Video?  Anything?

I DL'd at home and haven't gotten it to work yet either.  It wants me to open a couple of ports in my Firewall.  I have the ability to try some of what's suggested but, not port forwarding.  Ran into the same problem with SoSE and gave up trying to play the MP mode of play on it.  I'll see if this can work with just the ports opened.  This is an online only game as I understand it.

warreni,

Please locate your debug.err file.  This is usually in /my documents/my games/TPM2008Express.   Open the file in a text editor like Notepad. 

Copy the contents (CTRL+C).

Then go to this forum  (the tech support forum for TPM2008):

https://forums.politicalmachine.com/forum/137

Create a new topic and paste (CTRL+V) the contents into the text of your post. 

Then we can take a look at it and see if there is anything we can do.

In the meantime, please make sure your video card drivers are up to date.  This is a common cause of video-wonkiness.

Thanks.

Thank you for mentioning this.  I have now successfully played 2 games against the AI.  The first one I lost because I spent too much time trying to influence states I didn't have a chance in and the second one I did better.  It looks like a fun game!

Actually, I'm a union sympathiser... but I watch it for Whoopi Goldberg cos she's pro-fun.