When first starting a game, Elemental does not progress past Creating World wait screen. I have found that i can work around this by switching to a different application, then switching back to Elemental which has finaly progressed. However the cloth map is blank, no terrain or locations, only the unit pieces. I have multiple computers and this only occurs on one.
Specs
Windows Vista Buisness SP2
Dell Optiplex 755
Inel Core2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz 3.17 GHz
4 GB Ram
32-bit
ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro