*Hello everyone again.
Just another update on my situation.
I have reinstalled Bridge Commander onto my external to see if the old installation was just a fluke error. Unfortuanately it was not. I am still having the same problem with the game crashing/continuing indefinately at the first 'LOADING' screen.
I decided to try playing the game in a lower difficulty setting (Was playing on Admiral setting since i have completed the game on Captain when it was installed on my desktop) just in case this crashing is the games way of telling me to finish the game on an easier setting first to essentially unlock the Admiral level. Alas this did not work either, the game crashed at the same point. *Sigh*
However, just to clarify the 'Quick Battle' section works fine, i can load up as many enemies as i like and be whatever ship i like and it is all perfectly fine. So the problem is sitting quite nicely within the campaign area only. At least i hope it is. :shock:
Also just to clarify this new install has absolutely NO mods at all so it is not going to be something i have downloaded conflicting with the game in some way. I have made 2 other directories for an additional 2 installs. One is going to have the patch and the Maru Expansion. And the third is going to be a mega mod installation. Patch, Maru and as many other additonal mods as takes my fancy.
Anyway, i digress. So basically the problem is still there. It is not really that bad since i am hoping that i will have no problems with online play when i try it but it would be nie to be able to play the campaign again at least some point in the future. So if anyone has any more ideas then i would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance. And a big thanks to Mleo, Dalekanium2 and Kirk2164 for all your help to date.