Vovan31337 no CD Anno 1404 v1.0 ENG. Its work only when the game play the intro/movie game, after that the screen is black but the sound/ music theme is playing. My anno version is anno 1404 v1.00.1793 ( demo version ).
From what I understand there is no 'fix'. Ubisoft is at fault here, I love this game and have been playing it for a couple years now and had to work around all these issues when I first got it. What helped was turning the graphics to medium or low and creating a MASSIVE page file (50GB) with equal minimum and maximum values to force the system to create a set file size. This usually works pretty well but is an unacceptable fix in my opinion. The problem, I believe, is that the game is designed for a 32 bit system and as such can only utilize 2GB or memory.
Which is ridiculous. This game uses more memory than any game I have every played. Ubisoft needs to release a patch that will allow this game to take full advantage of a systems RAM.
They are still selling this game, and making money off of it. That means they should still be supporting it. I love Ubisoft games but I know that these issues are pushing a lot of people away from them. The Anno series is my favorite series of all time and I would hate to see it die.