empire total war startup freeze

not sure if this is the rightplace to post this, so i apologize if it is.

empire total war worked before, i havent played mylaptop in a while,but it used to work fine, I installed patch 1.3 and it wont start up past the screen which says EMPIRE TOTAL WAR,and shows all the credits etc., but it freezes, leaving me unable to do anything, ctrl+alt+delete doesnt work, nor alt+f4. ive uninstalled it 3 times, and when i do, i delete every trace of ETW from the steam folder, ive uninstalled my anti-virus system in hope that it would work, it didnt. im running off windows 7, if that changes anything. anybody got any ideas?

thanks

thanks for the reply

steam did update it automatically, I know before i stopped using my laptop, i was playing on a pre 1.3 patch

and no, ive done nothing with the drivers, ill try it now though