im unable to run any sort of map on empire earth 1. as soon as i click start game, it freazes up and says theres an error, and the program must close.also the opening movies sort of flicker in the corner of my screen. currently running windows 7

If it's the same error that I had, then check and make sure you don't have EE blocked in your firewall. It communicates to itself through ports, and crashes when it's blocked.

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/empire_earth_series/low_level_engine_dll_error_when_starting_a_mission_ee1