I just downloaded the new patches and then tried to start Empires. At first, the Empires Background showed up as normal, but then hl2.exe crashed. I know my pc has SSE1 and downloaded the 2.27 SSE1 and replaced the files in Empires/bin like i was told, so that cant be the issue. Did anyone else had this problem?
http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=13844 Basically, it's not fixed yet and 2.28 will apparently be out sooner than it'll be fixed. Sorry, you're outta luck.