gigamail

I dusted off my Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord CD after a long time of not playing it.. Great game still to this day. Anyway I was very frustrated that it would not start except in software accelerated mode. The error is mentioned here: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=714&Itemid=30 . The message disappears after Dr. Watson is done writing its file so you might not see it depending on what you do when you hear the drum beats and the windows error sound. Everything I could find on the error said it was DirectX related, or Nvidia driver related. I tried updating DirectX to the latest, tried to go to older versions, tried older video card drivers, nothing worked. Wasted a lot of time! Well surprise, just like you, I found it was related to Quicktime. I renamed my quicktime directory in \program files\ and CMBO started right up. That is my workaround for now, better than uninstalling Quicktime just to play. I found it was quicktime using FileMON from Sysinternals, nice that you were able to figure it out based on coincidence of installing ITunes & Quicktime. I would have given up a long time ago if I didn't like this game so much. Since Battlefront still sells the game it would be nice for them to update their information a bit. Hope this helps others trying to play. Windows 2000 DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Nvidia QuadroFX 1000 w/ Forceware 169.96 Quicktime version 7.1.3 <--- the culprit!! CMBO 1.12