annarborhawk

Will do. Thanks again for your help.

Argh. Well. the alt+tab takes me back to the desktop, but when I go back to the game, it just goes back to the blackscreen. At least I have the game working on the desktop. I just really wanted it on the laptop. I've go no clue what's wrong.

Thanks. Yes, I downloaded and installed the latest driver, but still no luck. It was Alt+Tab I tried with not lcuk either. And yes, I'm getting the resolution preference box, but no matter which one I chose the next thing I get is the black-screen with the intro music playing. As I said, there are two very small gray boxes, and the bottom says something like "Main Menu" -- but nothing on the whole screen is clickable. But thanks for the detailed response. I'l try again tonight for another go.

Still no luck when I tried the other screen settings. . . . I should mention. The screen isn't totally black. There is a small grey square top center, and another one bottom center. The words "Main Menu" appear on the bottom in -- but nothing is clickable, and I hear the background music. I tried the hitting "shift" thing two, but it didn't work.

1024x768 and 32bit color quality and 60 refresh rate. what does dumping CM preferences mean? and btw i tried the deleting the xp hotfix thing too.

Hi, new to the game. CMAK I'm getting the black screen with intro with intor music playing when I start up the game. I've tried the fixes I've read about -- no anti-aliasing; cntl/tab . . . still nothing. I'm running it on XP Home 1.5 Ghz Celeron 256 Ram Video card is the standard lap-top Intel 82852 (which doesn't have anti-aliasing. ANy suggestions???? Please help -- I need to knock out some tanks [ March 12, 2006, 01:29 PM: Message edited by: annarborhawk ]