<t> OK, did a uninstall and manually deleted some files also. Reinstalled, patched from within the game itself instead of DL from the site and then installed Frankenmod. I ASSUME all is right. no more crashing when turning the planet. Now though I have a question, I am booting the game from the UFO ...

any ideas??

only thing i know to do is a fresh install and see what happens...

<t> Well i did install them in that order although I did not backup my entire data folder, just the system.xbg file which is what i understood to do. here is the crashed file copied over:<br/>
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Console started<br/>
UFO:Extraterrestrials game engine v 1.0 - Apr 15 2007, 11:17:11<br ...

<t> Just got game and it worked fine. Then patched it and DL'd the latest frankenmod. Now, when I try to turn the planet with the green arrows, it crashes. Zooms in and out fine, but if i turn it any way it crashes to desktop with error message:<br/>
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"Internal Error occurred-please send log ...