Hey thanks. Thats all it was. I'm off to the Russian front.

<t>Thanks everyone for your help. I tried all the suggestions including installing DirectX 7.0a and the program still did not start. I read some directX help and they suggested for a similar problem to change the Windows Graphics Hardware Acceleration to the next to lowest setting. Low and behold ...

<t>Thanks. Here is more info:<br/>
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WIN ver 4.00.950a<br/>
DirectX ver 7.0 <br/>
RAM 48MB<br/>
Swap file 100MB<br/>
Free space on C: 612MB<br/>
Temp file: C:\Windows\Temp (612MB free)<br/>
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I found the newest drivers I could from ESS and STB. They are not all certified by DirectX but video ...

The improvement is really great from SP1 to SPWAW, but the change from Typhoon of Steel to SP1 seemed a little more evolutionary.

But I don't know for sure because I'm still trying to get SPWAW to work on my new Pentium-100 computer.

<t>The game still does not start. I have upgraded successfully to 4.3b. The game keeps returning to the main menu when trying to start with each version. I'm running a Gateway Pentium 100 w/ an Intel MB that does not have any onboard cache. Are there any known conflicts with the ESS-869 sound chip ...

<t>I installed the PCgamer CD on a friends computer and the game started and ran OK. I have a recently reformated hard drive and clean system, so I also have to believe the problem is with one of my components. Maybe the sound card or other hardware? Just updated to 4.1 and still same problem. Will ...

Hi,

The PCGamer CD installed without a hitch. When I click play SPWAW from the main menu, the intro sequence plays, then the screen flashes a couple of times and instead of going to the first game screen it brings me back to main menu again.

Jerry

<t>I have same trouble - game keeps returning to intro sequence. I have PCGamer CD build 3.0.23b. Downloaded version of the game used to work on my 486 with 32MB ram. But cannot get CD to work on P100 with 48MB ram and plenty of hard disk space. Have DirectX7 and older ESS sound card and Cirrus ...