Trouble Re-installing CM

[Sepp Dietrich]

A virus came in under my radar on Sunday night and nuked my hard-drive to oblivion. I've spent the last three days rebuilding my system and software from scratch (and updated my anti-virus software - too late!) but I'm having no luck in re-installing CM.

I'm installing from the same CD as I did originally, on the same machine (post-virus, but now clean and safe) - the only difference is that I'm now using a slightly older version of Win 98. It *seems* to install okay, but when I go to fire CM up I get an error entitled 'Unhandled Exception' which reads "Unhandled exception: C0000005 At address: 005623d0". When I click Okay I then get a Fatal Error message and I return to the desktop.

I've now reloaded it and unloaded it five times and get the same message every time. I realise this is penance for not keeping my anti-virus software updated, but I think I've suffered enough. It's bad enough that hours and hours of downloaded MODS were lost forever in the firestorm, but not being able to play CM at all is killing me. And I'm on holiday as well! Please help!!

<breaks down weeping>

[Schrullenhaft]

The error you are getting is related to DirectX. Windows 98 1st Edition has DirectX 5.0, but CM needs DirectX 6.1 or later (6.1 was in Win98 2nd Edition). Install DirectX 8.0a (assuming your video driver will have no problems with this version of DirectX).

DirectX 8.0a:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=27741

[Sepp Dietrich]

Danke Schrullenhaft - downloading DirectX 8.0

now. Then it will be time to start downloading (and this time *backing up*) all my MODs again.

Cheers,