just purchased this game and it says it can not be started\.... why would this be ?

did you try running it as administrator? that's what I had to do to get past the "cannot run loco.exe" or whatever it said..

my problem is that my graphics card apparently doesn't like Locomotion, or vice versa... All I see is video puke, where I can make out the various screen components... the program functions, but things are barely readable...

I'm going to try it on one of my netbooks...

I was able to get around this.

This is how I did it. Go to the install directory run the file 'Loco'

That did it for me

Worked for me, too. Run loco.exe as admin.

Directly running LOCO.EXE also worked for me. No need to run it as Administrator.