I installed this last night with no real time to play.  I fired it up and created a new game just to see what it looked like.  I quit as soon as I got to the cloth map.  I realized then that I hadn't configured Impulse to install to my e: drive (my preferred location for installed programs) so I reconfigured it and uninstalled and re-installed the game, without trying to restart it.  Tonight I fired it up and was greeted with blank menus.

http://screencast.com/t/NzljZjliODkt

http://screencast.com/t/Yzg4MGQ1N2Y

http://screencast.com/t/YjJiNWNkYjQt

My debug.err:

http://pastebin.com/jPdYmZnD

My dxdiag:

http://pastebin.com/a9XtP5CW

I tried updating my graphics card to the latest ATI drivers but got the same result.