Alrighty, here is my delema when I try to play 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul, I get en error saying "We are sorry, but the operating system failed to provide the window to render the game graphics in. Please consult the game manual for known workarounds that improve game's compatibility with your hardware." The odd thing is, I got it to run before I had to do a reinstall of windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit. I haven't uped my Graphics card driver yet. I'll be doing that as I type now.
Maybe the window that failed to render the game graphics is being blocked by your fire-wall? I'm not sure, but the error discription sounds like they didn't test their game thoroughly enough. But that's just me.
ok, so this game was mad ein 2007. if they are using windows to do window managment (instead of directx, or in openGL's case sdl or sfml). try running in compatability mode starting at windows 98, then xp, and so on.