brucertx

Dear Hubert, I appreciate all of your assitance. I put a gig of RAM in......problem seems to be fixed!

Well Hubert, This just gets stranger. Tried downloading the "graphics" driver and the insatall failed because it couldn't find any "existing componenets". So, I downloaded the "video" driver and it installed. Re-booted, started the game, same error. I think I'm snakebit! Bruce

Hi Hubert, Thanks for your continued interest and efforts. The laptop is an HP Pavilion dv6305us running the NVIDIA GeForce GO 6150 video card. The driver is listed as the most current, ver. 7.15.10.0815. Hope this helps. Bruce

Fellows, Thank you for your input. No other programs are running in the background. I've never even strated the Editor. Didn't know what they were, so I searched out Dream Scene and Aero desktop. As near as I can tell I disabled everything and set it to a "classic" views setting. Nothing works. A game that worked flawlessly on ME and XP won't on Vista Basic. I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game and the 1.06 patch. It's a bit frustrating. Guess I will have to shelve my gaming investment until a Vista ver. is available. Appreciate your suggestions and time. Bruce

thanks for you input. updated all drivers. same problem. tried running in xp mode. same problem. tried running in 98/me mode. error message saying it couldn't a license.

I give up

I finally found time to get back to this issue. Downloaded and installed DirectX9c. No change in the problem. The sequence of events is as follows; 1-game begins initial load just fin through selecting the nscenariond options. 2-game starts "LOADING" 3-music becomes choppy 4-game starts "CALCULATING SUPPLY" 5-after a significant legth of time an error window titled "draw_sprite_on_map_surface" opens with the following erroe message "DIRECTX FAILED: DDERR_SURFACELOST" Do I have to do something to disable DircetX10?

Thanks Hubert, I'll give it a try. Bruce

Sorry. I should have told you that I was running 1.06. When I checked my DirectX ver. it said I was running 10.

just installed on new hp laptop running vista and directx10. get the following error messag after game loads and starts checking supply. DIRECTX FAILED:odder_surfacehost what the heck does that mean??