This is an issue that comes up frequently. So I'll resurrect this older thread to provide a little more clarity. The most common reason (usually for users on a laptop) is that the game is running with Intel integrated video. Unfortunately the Intel drivers have always had blurry text issues with the...

<t>I'm guessing that this may just be a case of the way your LCD displays 800x600 resolution. I'd guess that your LCD's native resolution is 1024x768. Any other resolution will appear 'blocky' since everything has to be 'scaled' to fit the actual resolution of 1024x768 (the actual number of pixel el...

<t>I had a problem placing my order.<br/> <br/> After filling out the credit-card info I got the following error after clicking "Finish":<br/> <br/> FDR_Authorization.Authorization error '8000ffff' <br/> <br/> Catastrophic failure <br/> <br/> /TransFiles/sale_inc.asp, line 1446<br/> <br/> <br/> The ...

<r>The slider adjustments are available depending on your sound driver's ability to support them. If you give further specifics on your Compaq model and the sound chip in it (which you <I><s>[i]</s>may<e>[/i]</e></I> find in the Device Manager listing for <I><s>[i]</s>Sound, video and game controlle...

<r>The STB Nitro 64 is based on a Cirrus Logic 5434 chip. I believe the latest drivers for that chip would be included in DirectX 7.0a. The STB drivers will probably be a bit dated. I would suggest <I><s>[i]</s>uninstalling<e>[/i]</e></I> them and removing any .INF file in the C:\WINDOWS\INF directo...

<r>Paul Vebber claimed that he runs on NT 4.0 with SPWAW. Only in solitaire mode (human vs. AI) since the PBEM has problems (under NT). I'm wondering if campaigns also have problems under NT 4.0. One of the major problems here is that SPWAW <I><s>[i]</s>requires<e>[/i]</e></I> DirectX 6.1 or greater...

<t>This is a really "if-fy" guess, but what mouse driver are you using ? Do you have any of your mouse buttons programmed for something in particular ?<br/> <br/> I'll have to try this out myself and see if I can duplicate the problem too. It's possible that it may be some sort of minor corruption i...

<t>Are you able to play any scenarios or campaigns ? Are you overclocking your Celeron ? If you are you may want to clock it down (temporarily) to the actual rated speed to see if this problem continues.<br/> <br/> Have you played any previous versions of SPWAW with your system before ? Are you usin...

Is this the only place you get hangs in SPWAW ? Can you play any scenarios or have you tried any other campaigns ?

<r>Earlier posts mentioned a problem with the sound formats being a bit different for a number of the sounds and this may be confusing the drivers for the SoundBlaster. The following suggestion doesn't really address this, but it may be worth a try.<br/> <br/> Assuming that you've installed DirectX ...

<r>mao - Let me reiterate the info you've supplied so far. One box you have at home is a Pentium with 20Mb of RAM, a Diamond Stealth PCI video card and less than 100Mb of free disk space on the partition (I assume this is your boot partition) where SPWAW is installed. The other system at work is a P...

Part of the "Torch" landings in November (?), 1942. Most of the French troops put up little resistance, but there were others who held out doggedly. I can't recall if any of the fighting extended into Algeria or not; I think it did.

<t>Historically I think the problem with this request is that aerial photo recon was done for higher commands than you would normally see in SPWAW. But more than that is the time to return, develop and analyze the pictures.<br/> <br/> Aerial photo recon is a bit beyond the time scope for SPWAW. Howe...

<r>Just to add some non-sensical jibberish to the conversation....<br/> <br/> I <I><s>[i]</s>believe<e>[/i]</e></I> that the original Flak rounds for the 88 were specially fuzed for the anti-air role. They had an altitude-oriented timer that was geared towards shooting down larger, high-flying aircr...

<r>The "PCI Steering" <I><s>[i]</s>is<e>[/i]</e></I> completely normal (and mandatory within Win9x). So much for that theory...<br/> <br/> Either Fabio Prado's Tank site or Tankhead's had a list of beta improvements across each release. Though it looks as if they may have taken them down.<br/> <br/>...

<r>I always like to check out other gamer's historical scenarios. Though I'm a pathetic commander and my observational skills/feedback may not be all that great either.<br/> <br/> Please send it to <B><s>[b]</s><EMAIL email="ian_straw@hotmail.com">ian_straw@hotmail.com</EMAIL> <e>[/b]</e></B> or if ...

<r>Nova350 - What operating system are you using (i.e. - Windows 98 2nd Ed., etc.) ? <br/> <br/> When the game crashes to the desktop are any units trying to move or are you just scrolling the screen around (and not selecting something to move) ? If a unit is moving and you crash then you may want t...

I like the idea myself, especially for the American "replacement" system. Bring your infantry back to full strength, but reduce the experience (by how much would be the big question). So the option to rebuild a full squad - gain the firepower, but lose the experience.

Hey... I'm lazy... email me a copy please.

ian_straw@hotmail.com

<t>Have you tried running the games from a DOS prompt (after exiting Windows to DOS) ? A .dll file is usually associated with Windows. As Drake666 said you should do a search to see if this file comes up on your drive. If it is in the Windows directory (or Windows/System directory more than likely) ...