Hi,
when i tried launching SOASE:ET yesterday it just froze with a black screen. With some patience is was terminateable from windows. I seems that error i caused when Sins trys loading a mod(on startup) from the original game. If you remove the name of the mod in the settings-file in your Profile it starts without problems.
@devs: If i recall correctly there were several patches that erased all personal settings? Quite annoying, but better than black screen... May be there is even a way to remove the "load mod on startup"-glitch without resetting all settings during installation?