MartinL

Thank you @user1000, that got rid of the warning and, I assume, the problem! I would have thought that the patch .exe file would have taken care of that, oh well. Cheers!

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue or what to try next? During installation of the patch it complained about a file missing, I went forward with the installation (I'm an optimist). The game started ok, I was able to start a quick battle, but in the main screen I see the message: The following data files are missing. Please contact customer service. fortress italy v220.brz. I have attached a screen capture of the message. Thanks!

For anybody else perplexed by the lack of "Red Thunder" + "v2.13" in https://www.battlefront.com/patches: "CMRT Engine 4" is the right link: it does show v213 as the patch number.

Good news! Problem is solved. Under Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced there is a "Troubleshoot" tab. Hardware acceleration wasn't set to Full and I seem to recall that might have been done because of mouse issues with the previous serial mouse. Set it to full h/w acceleration, restart the system and CMAK now works like a charm. I still get the redness if I ctrl-esc out and come back, but that is a minor issue. Thanks a million for your help! Out of the exercise I got my drivers updated. Cheers!

Thank you for the suggestions. Indeed, I have DirectX 9.0c. My ATI Rage 128 has the latest driver. I updated the VIA Hyperion driver. I updated the BIOS to 1013. No other mouse drivers were found in add/remove programs. This is a Microsoft mouse and I simply used what Windows XP provided. Before I wrote my post, I had looked for an updated mouse driver and Microsoft suggested Intellipoint; I installed it and didn't get any improvements so I removed it again. Can anybody explain why: - from the main CMAK window (with mouse stuck) - ctrl-esc out to Windows - click the CMAK icon to go back in CMAK Result: Mouse is ok and display is somewhat more red (not as nice) but still useable. I appreciate any help that can be offered but, since I have a workaround, I will accept a surrender for this one. Cheers!

Problem: When starting up CMAK and CMBB, mouse is stuck in the middle of the screen. A second erratic mouse appears at the bottom of the screen, it is not always visible but by juggling around enough I can usually get it to open over the "EXIT" button so that I can leave. Interesting workaround: If I ctrl-esc out to the main Windows page and then click back into CMAK, then the mouse works correctly. (so I have a workaround to my problem, thus it is not critical at this point, simply quite annoying). Note I haven't confirmed the above behaviour with CMBB. I believe the problem is related to replacing a serial mouse to a wheel optical mouse using PS/2. Swithching to using USB didn't help and I failed to succeed going back to the serial mouse to confirm. Note that I hadn't used CMAK or CMBB for a few months (mea culpa) after replacing the mouse so that it why I am not 100% confident it is related to the mouse replacement. Other info: Removing the .prefs file and restarting sometimes result in the mouse functioning correctly right up to starting up a scenario. When I alt-a out of the scenario, the erratic mouse behaviour occurs again. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Martin System information: SiSoftware Sandra Processor Model : AMD Athlon XP 2000+ Speed : 1.66GHz Model Number : 2000 (estimated) Performance Rating : PR2406 (estimated) Type : Standard L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC Synchronous Write-Back (16-way, 64 byte line size) Mainboard Bus(es) : AGP PCI IMB USB i2c/SMBus MP Support : No MP APIC : Yes System BIOS : Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1006 System : System Manufacturer System Name Mainboard : ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V8X-X Total Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM Chipset 1 Model : ASUSTeK Computer Inc VT8377 Apollo KT400/A/600 CPU to PCI Bridge Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate) Total Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM Memory Bus Speed : 2x 166MHz (332MHz data rate) Video System Monitor/Panel : ViewSonic P810 Adapter : Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro Peripherals Serial/Parallel Port(s) : 2 COM / 1 LPT Keyboard : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard Mouse : Microsoft PS/2 Mouse Human Interface : Logitech WingMan RumblePad (HID) Human Interface : Logitech WingMan RumblePad USB MultiMedia Device(s) Device : Standard Game Port Device : SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio Operating System(s) Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Home (Win32 x86/IA32) 5.01.2600 (Service Pack 2) Network Services Adapter : VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter MOUSE INFORMATION: SiSoftware Sandra Device Information Model : Microsoft PS/2 Mouse Number of Buttons : 3 Wheel : Yes Port : PS/2 or USB Device Settings User Prefers Mouse : Yes Button Configuration : Right-hand Cursor Shadow : No Pointer Trails : No Sonar Enabled : No Vanish Enabled : Yes Pointer Tracking Speed : 1 X/Y Threshold : 6 / 10 Double Click Speed : 410 ms MouseKeys Accessibility Feature Engaged : No DirectX Information: SiSoftware Sandra Driver Information File Name : display Library Version : 5.03.2600.2180 Device Model : Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro WHQL Level : 1 Total/Free Memory : 32MB / 30.3MB, 95% Total/Free Video Memory : 32MB / 30.3MB, 95% Total/Free Texture Memory : 32MB / 30.3MB, 95% Maximum Z-Buffer Depth : 32-bit Maximum Visible Overlays : 1 Min/Max Overlay Stretch : 0.0 / 16.0 Min/Max Live Video Stretch : 0.0 / 16.0 Min/Max Hardware Codec Stretch : 0.0 / 16.0 Max/Current Video Ports : 1 / 0 Interface Supports DirectDraw v7 (DX7) : Yes Current Refresh Rate : 60Hz General Capabilities Has 3D Hardware Acceleration : Yes Supports Alpha Blending : No <a lot of other information removed because this was getting too long...>