Kane's Wrath - not launching (splash screen/black screen)

Hi everyone,

I have seen a lot of topics regarding this game, and it's issues. I have tried all the solutions - none of them worked so far. So here's the deal:

I have played this game for years and years and years... Now, a few days ago it did not start up, so I tried a few things, read the forums, nothing have helped.

Issue is

- both Kane's Wrath and C&C 3 fails to start, splash screen comes in, then black screen, and after that (1 or 2 seconds) error comes up "... has stopped working" so I close the program and that's it.

What I have tried

- installed direct X (the old one which was suggested in several posts)

- installed vc redist x86, x64

- uninstalled both games, and then reinstalled them

- tried a million different compatibility modes

- and several other things I cannot remember right now

As the game has worked like a charm on this PC, I am sure that hardware's not a problem. This is a windows 7 x64 PC, with an AMD Radeon card, only issue I can think of is the newest driver for it (updated a few days ago). All other games run fine.

Any suggestions are really appreciated.

Thanks,

Daniel