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Thank you for your replies. BCFElvis I have done as you say today but still get v4.00 on the front page bottom right corner. Here is some more detail, appreciate your help. On 05/27/2011 I purchased CMBN Engine 1 (CMBN BGV1) - that's on an old hard drive somewhere. Then on 12/24/2015 I purchased CMBN Engine 3 Big Bundle (CMBN B4V3) On 10/15/2018 I upgraded to Upgrade 4 (CMBN UPV4) and CMBN Battle Pack 1 (CMBN P2V4) I am not quite sure where the downloads originally went but all the files are now in the correct folder [user/john/documents etc] on the same drive as Windows, and also the CMBN Win v403 update.rar file. What I did this morning is run Activate New Products and used the CMBN UPV4 activate code, then ran again and used all the other codes in turn. Then finally run it one more time to see if it would do the 4.03 update. I downloaded the patch again and still no update to v4.03. I am not sure if I really need the patch, the game I have started (MG a man can die but once) is behaving well. But I have a desire to understand what is wrong. Could it be my AVG anti virus? - the free version does not have a firewall and it has downloaded the patch file (126626 Kb) Thanks for your help.

Hi. I have just reinstalled CMBN up to v4.00 with all the add ons. It works fine. Now I download the v4.03 patch - there is no v4.01 or v4.02 and following the post from Vacillator I hit 'Activate New Products CMBN' It reinstalled the whole show (from time taken) and asked for activation key. I supplied the key which came with BattlePack1 and the front page came up as before but still in the bottom right hand corner is v4.00. Am I running v4.03? If not has anyone a suggestion before I trouble helpdesk ??

Thank you very much for that wrap. Yes I know that the pref file can be deleted (on another game, is it CMBO the file can be edited, I think) but since I have the game working well and know that there are idiosyncrasies on my system, I am now happy and don't want to muck about. There is no doubt that changing the size of text setting to 125% (makes the desktop much more readable) and running the monitor at top and recommended resolution caused the game to spill over at the bottom right. Anyway it is an easy fix - and there might be other issues such as clicking Ctrl-+ in GMail to make text larger may have an influence which I have not yet figured out. Most times on opening the game the panning is smooth - if not I pan a bit and the system often picks up on the requirement and the panning becomes fast and smooth (figure that one out, mate !!) Otherwise I Alt-Tab and right click the desktop and open Display Settings and toggle Text Size to 125% and back to 100% and the game is sweet. Following your post I will check if it is the Alt-Tab to minimise and then the reopen which causes the change. Thanks again. My time is under huge pressure atm - but I will slowly work thru the Pegasus game.

Thanks all for your help and your advice. It has taken all this time (3 weeks) to get CMAK v 1.3 installed and running smoothly (NB) on a clean install of Win 10 Pro. But I have been very busy elsewhere and it only took this afternoon to get CMAK sorted. Here are some of the issues I encountered - just in case anyone else has a problem. Installation of V1.1 from the DVD was no problem. But installing V1.3 patch ran into the 'Code 5 Access Denied' error on the CMAK.exe file. That usually means the upgrader cannot uninstall the old file. So the quick fix for that is to change the name of that old file and the upgrader will not have to delete it. Worked a charm. Starting the program and I chose the first resolution solution offered with 60 hz - (I have a Nvidia GTX 970 which is years old but still adequate for my work with a Dell U2415 monitor with native resolution of 1920 x 1200 60 hz) The top resolution offered (I did not write it down) seemed OK. Then on starting the program all was sweet but the image was too large and I could not see the bottom of the screen - disaster for CMAK, of course. Next step then was to open the program by right clicking and click 'Troubleshoot Compatibility' - I tried Win 68 as suggested and then win 7 but the issue was identified by 'Compatibility' as that I had set the 'Size of Text' in 'Display Settings' at 125% - Compatibility offered a solution which worked, but the panning and scrolling of the graphics in game was slow and jerky. Not satisfactory but the full game screen now displays correctly. Now when I open CMAK, I first manually change 'Size of Text' back to standard 100% - change colour to 'Game' and it runs as sweet as a top, and very fast with 32 GB ram and off an M2 PCIe drive. Now all I have to do is keep the SS off the Pegasus Bridge. Once again - thanks all, I still love this game above all other wargames, but yes, I know I have to engage in the latest CM releases soon.

Thanks for that Erwin. I am wondering if making a special window on my monitor and running V1.03 in that will help. Still would buy V1.04 if available. My WIN 7 Ultimate got caught in the recent purge on activation - it was an old oem and all I did was upgrade to an M2 ssd and change from 32 bit to 64 bit. Friends say I should do a clean install WIN 7 and see if it activates. But I have already bought the WIN 10 Pro Retail, so one would think that is the way to go. Thanks for your help.

Hello all. I am just about to do a clean install of Windows 10 Pro. I am in the middle of a huge Pegasus Bridge Campaign game on my old Windows 7 - My CMAK is Version 1.3. Has anyone succeeded in getting CMAK 1.3 to run on Win 10 - or alternatively where do you buy V1.4 now. There is no sign of it on Battlefront.com that I can find.

Great - at last my display problem for CMAK is solved. Thank you Schrullenhaft. I have bought a 4K monitor (res 3840x2160) and an ASUS GTX 970 graphics card so I wanted the best possible display. Easy - just delete the .pref file in the Game Folder in Programs(x86) and a restart will allow to set a higher res - maybe even 3840x2160. No way - shock, horror - there is no .pref file, and every time CMAK starts it throws up a very course and ugly image. But - Schrullenhaft has fingered the problem - after Vista, Windows writes the .pref file to a hidden folder. Perhaps I can find it !! not guaranteed. But, again - there is another way. Go back in time to before Vista, right click the CMAK shortcut on the desktop, click properties and open compatibility mode. Easy now - just select something before Vista (Win XP SP3, of course) and restart CMAK. Sure enough up comes the res selection boxes - first one offered is 2048x1536x60 - that's a 1.33 to 1 aspect ratio (native to CMAK) so I grab it. Display is great, panning a bit jerky but the control boxes are postage stamp size and too hard to read. So - delete .pref, restart CMAK (still in XP mode) and select 1920x1440. WOW - Is Good. Still one more thing - on NVIDIA Control Panel (right click the desktop) you get the choice of 'Aspect Ratio' or 'Full Screen' or 'No Scaling'. 'Aspect Ratio' gives you black side bars on the wide screen monitor - 'Full Screen' lets you use all the display but widens and flattens the Shermans (no bad thing) and makes the Tommies look even tougher. Forget 'No Scaling' - you just get a postage stamp (on the high res monitor) On the NVIDIA Control Panel you can also choose to let the GPU or the Display to do the scaling- I have chosen Display. And another last thing - the image which is displayed at any resolution is the same size and is the same portion of the map - just far superior quality at higher resolution. Up to a point which is determined by the game I suppose. Res is easy to set on CM -2 games using the display size.txt file in the game folder (not in Programs(x86) so it cant be snaffeled off sometime later LOL) I tried a few settings and settled for 2048x1536 (1.33 : 1 aspect ratio and 'Full Screen') The trees and water at Arnhem are beautiful and the cabbages in Ukraine are ready to eat. So, don't delay - go buy yourselves a Christmas present.