I loaded it up, started a local server (set to arid instead of money or whatever the default map is). It worked beautifully. I tried to join BE to command and dick around, and empires blew up in a spectacular ball of fire. Relevant links: http://explodie.org/empiresmod/hl2_emp_purevirt__23_11_52__2_5_2011.mdmp http://explodie.org/empiresmod/hl2_4104_crash_2011_2_5T23_11_53C0.mdmp