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That'll explain it - I got it when it first came out. Showing my age now! The fact that its still on my PC shows its class - its just that I normally play BB now. My brother got the first one a few weeks ago, and so I am finally discovering the joys of PBEM - which I can do when travelling with work away from home. Hey ho, thanks for the responses.

Yeah, I thought so, but I can't see it. Checked both discs as well......

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if the manual is available in PDF format. I have it on the laptop, and lugging it around the old briefcase is doing my shoulder in!

Hi, the message you got looks familiar to one I had when I started the game. That turned out to be my ASPI drivers becomimg corrupted. It also started happening occasionally when I opened Excel. I reinstalled and all OK.

Ahaaaa!! Success!!!! Right it turns out my ASPI drivers had become corrupt! I have downloaded 4.6 and everything is working superbly. Many thanks for all your help and advice, I have learnt more in the last two weeks than in the previous few years!!! Thanks again!

Ok, Thanks again, it took me a while to log into the site, but I've got it. Still no joy I'm afraid. Hmmm, last gasp I think. I think I may have to pop it into mt local friendly PC doctor, just in case there is something lurking in there. Many thanks for your time and patience.

Hi thanks again, that's made a couple of things clearer. Right I have now found my box an my little book says it is a "Socket A 1st Mainboard AZ11, based around KT133 chipset comprised of VIA VT 8363 system controller for the North Bridge, and the VIA 686A (Super South)". "Onboard AC97 sound ensures high quality audio, with the option of being disabled through BIOS". It says about the Compact Onboard Audio Subsystem "Embedded in VIA 686A, the audio processor offers an integrated PCI audio controller, DOS games compatible engine, and offers the feature of high-quality music synthesizer. The subsystem utilizes line-out, line-in and MIC mini-jack external jacks. Phew! Hope that helps. Thanks again for your time.

I'm pretty sure the audio driver is the AC97 codec - that is the one that is listed under my "device manager profile", whereas before it just stated "VIA WDM". Should I be checking anywhere else? Could it be a problem with my 128mb memory itself (although I would guess other programs would have similar problems if that was the case)? Something smells fishy.......

Hi thanks again, I am sorry for taking up so much of your time. I've tried that and no joy. My soundcard is integrated and not PCI, would that make a difference? The AC97 is the one I got from VIA and I have tried shutting down all other applications using ctrl+alt+del, because I noticed you suggested that to the person with a similar problem. Serves me right, I have been waiting for this game for soooooo long! Typical!

Hi, Thanks for the reply. There were when I uninstalled my driver, which is coincidentally the ONLY time I have got the game to load. There wasn't any sound so I exited, realised I hadn't installed the updated driver and did so. Bingo! the game would'nt load again!! My soundchip is onboard the KT133 motherboard, is it too old/crap and should I invest in a separate soundcard? Could it be as simple as that? Why would it work with everything else? Why am I crap at computers? :confused:

Thanks again, I have already downloaded those drivers. This is curious, but I was wrong to say CM worked with the sound disabled - I uninstalled the driver by mistake and hadn't at that time installed the new ones! So, the only time I got it to work was when my device was missing! Very odd, and my technical skills have never been stretched so much! Learning with every post though!

Hi Scheer Thanks for the message. There was a board about .tmp files on the 21st March and I've tried the suggestions on it. Frankly I'm about to resort to the claw hammer solution! If I disable my sound I can gt the game to run (silently!), so it must be in there somewhere I guess.

Thanks again for the reply. Right I have tried all that and still no joy. A special thanks for the Adaware tip, I had no idea how much crap had been put on my system! Very frustrating. The only thing that rang a bell in the pile of hex that I recognised was the EAX reference, which I seem to remember a reference to for my soundcard. Could it be something to do with sound? My OS is Win 98. Cheers for all your help, its much appreciated and educational!

Hi, thanks for the suggestions. Tried them and still no luck! DirectX 8.1 is definely installed, background apps are off and temp file empty. I have the new detonator drivers for the TNT2, so I can't see it being that, but thanks anyway

Wonder if anyone can help. Bought Combat Mission just now. I had the demo some time back and it worked fine, and the full version seems to have installed fine. However every time I fire it up, the initial picture comes up, and then it terminates with this message: COMBAT MISSION caused an invalid page fault in module ~DF394B.TMP at 017f:011386b8. Registers: EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=011386b8 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=00004db8 SS=0187 ESP=00a7f9cc EBP=00a7f9d8 ECX=00000cf3 DS=0187 ESI=00d6059b FS=0d5f EDX=0000e5f3 ES=0187 EDI=0083724c GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 66 8b 44 1f fc d1 e8 83 c0 07 99 83 e2 07 03 c2 Stack dump: 0133c1c8 011522f8 000000c8 00a7fa04 010f80d0 00400000 0133c1c8 011522f8 000000c8 000000c8 00000000 011988f8 00400001 011988f8 00a7fa78 01175af8 My Pc is Athlon 800, nVidia tnt2, via ac97 soundchip, direct x 8.1, 32x cdrom. I am a technical amoeba and have no idea where to start. Cheers in advance. :mad: