I am at August, 1944 against AI playing CHS. IMO this version is superior to the stock version or the improved map Brown version.

<t> July 1,1944 "Hell is upon us"<br/>
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Guam, Tinian & Saipan have fallen to the U.S. Some Japanese soldiers still hold out on Saipan. Palembang has also fallen.<br/>
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ABDA forces have driven to the outskirts of Singapore. They have twice been repulsed by Japanese forces in Singapore ...

Add the switch "-deepColor" to your command line. This speeds up things -- especially om windows 8.

As I recall, after the invading forces landed but before combat there was a reported Japanese loss of 21 troops.

Strangely, one of the LCI[G]'S appeared to work during the invasion of Guam. Rockets were shown as expended. I'll keep trying them. The invasion of Tinian is coming up soon.

Does anyone know how the LCI(G) works. How do you make the rockets fire? I included them in my invasion forces. One barge load of rockets appeared to fire but the other LCI(G)'s didn't

BPRE you were correct. The Amphib Force units will load on the AGC ships. Thanks for the insight.

You may be right. As soon as I can position an AGC for loading I'll test it.

<t> I have been preoccupied with the establishment of a second home in the Seattle area (I live in the Phoenix, AZ area) and have not been playing witp consistently. However, the game has still progressed slowly. Following is the update:<br/>
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Jan 1, 1944<br/>
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The US has taken the ...

<t> As explained in other threads, the key is to include the switch "-deepColor" in the command line. I believe the Windows 8 problem is that it does not support Direct Draw. The deepColor switch fixes this somehow. Note: I have discovered that he -cpu# switch can be a problem with intel quad-core ...

<t> September 1, 1943<br/>
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The Japanese are in a world of hurt!<br/>
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Commonwealth forces have captured Bankok. Line stands at Tavoy-Bankok-Pisanuloke. Commonwealth forces are resting and refitting. Japanese forces opposing them are not strong. British naval forces are repositiong to ...

<t> May 24, 1943<br/>
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Commonwealth forces continue to advance in Burma. Tavoy has fallen to the Allies. Commonwealth forces are pressing the retreating Japanese all across the Burma front. The Japanese are reacting with shock attacks at unfavorable odds. their losses are large.<br/>
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I ran a test using the -deepColor switch. It appears to work and eliminates lag. Setting your graphics card control to "maintain aspect ratio" will also eliminate elongation of the WITP screen.

<t> April 27,1943<br/>
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Rangoon and Moulmein have fallen to Commonwealth forces. Remaining Japanese forces at Rangoon are surrounded. Except for some Japanese units backed up against the river south of Taung Gyi, Burma essentially is back in British control. The Japanese units near Taung Gyi ...

<t> This problem also occurs in WITP-AE. In WITP-AE there is a command switch "-deepColor" which cures the lag. I seem to recall that such a command switch is also available in WITP but I can't confirm it. If so, it will probably cure the problem for you also. I think this problem occurs because ...

The problem may be related to the fact that DirectDraw is not supported in Windows 8. As a consequence, I've found the -dd_sw switch to not have any effect -- at least on my machine. For some reason the -deepColor switch solves the problem. I'm not systems analyst enough to know why.

Run the -deepColor switch in the command line. This cured the scrolling/messaging delay. It may also cure the phantom overlay problem.

The -deepColor switch is the answer. Just ran it full screen. On a computer with a fairly fast processor (2.9GHz), I actually had to slow down scrolling and messaging -- it was too fast! Many thanks to Rainer for finding the solution to this annoying problem.

<t> March 30, 1943<br/>
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Tarawa has fallen. After a short, bloody three-day battle, Tarawa was taken and the Japanese wiped out. Two army divisions, the 41st and the Americal as well as the 155th US RCT were used. The landing did not go well. The 41st and the 155th RCT were supposed to invade ...

Also, if you're now running in Windows 8, the processor speed seems more important than with earlier versions of Windows. I had to upgrade my computer to higher speed processor to get World in Flames to run satisfactorily in Windows 8.