When I start the game with ESET Smart Security firewall active, it hangs at splash screen- it seems that firewall tries to display accept/deny popup for internet connection. The popup itself is not visible, but I can guess it's there- mouse cursor changes over part of the screen. Tried to alt-tab out of the game- can't. Tried to press ctrl+alt+del to kill it from task manager- can't (again, it seems that taskmanager window is not visible, but cursor shape changes over another part of the screen). All I can do at this point is hit reset.

I can start Elemental with firewall disabled, or just manually add it, but still it's annoying.

BTW- it would be nice to let us know exactly what kind of data the game is trying to send