<t> Interestingly, I've got an Asus motherboard as well, and a Pentium 4 processor running at 2.4GHz, without hyperthreading though.<br/>
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I've had problems with a motherboard from Asus before. It was a Pentium II model, and my system kept crashing consistently when I was playing Half-Life ...

<t> Thank you for your thorough description of this bug, minefield. I'm surprised and saddened to hear that SPWAW will not be developed beyond version 8.3, and thus you seem to be quite right; there doesn't seem to be a way to get this bug fixed anymore.<br/>
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Hmm, perhaps it'd be best to ...

Thought I would mention it here, for the record:

I tried runnin MECH.exe with Windows XP's every Compatibility mode (with 256 colors aswell), but, sadly, it had no effect on this bug.

<t> Oh, come on.. It's just a graphics glitch. Probably a simple bug, and thus easy to fix; if only someone just pointed the programmers to the right direction. And 8.3 was released just recently - so the game base code is still maintained at least with some enthusiasm. Right?<br/>
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So, what ...

<t> Greetings!<br/>
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I'm having a nasty graphics problem, that occurs during turns, in gameplay: the screen turns completely black. I can "redraw" the hex graphics and menu buttons back to visibile either by waving my mouse pointer around, or by turning off/on the smoke by pressing U-key ...