<t> ok, as you can imagine this is making me quite irate, the issue from my first post has now recurred and has "infected" other games on my cpu. As to whether it is UFO or hardware thats the issue i think it to be quite the coincidence that i have had no problems with my cpu until i installed and ...

and the non-responsive box that appears and wont let me play for more than 2 mins?

<t> all the fans are working fine, nothing seems to be heating up so i decided to give it a go. The screen was flickering a few times, then all of a sudden the game "tabbed out". it became a black box about the size of the reduced windowed internet explorer and was only black. It wouldnt let ...

<t> ok, id only just turned the comp on when this had happened and it had been off for several hours prior. i have since left it off and just turned it on now to find the problem has corrected itself in the fact that windows has returned to normal, however ingame the screen "flickers". It did this ...

<t> ok, im not sure if there is any coming back from this one:<br/>
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Ive been lurking in the shadows for this game for nine months and have been just as disappointed with every delay as anyone. I told myself that i'd get the retail version but i cracked last night and got the DD. I installed ...