<r> Thank the Gaming Gods....<br/>
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Everything went fine this time, disconected from the internet first before disabling my system antivirus and firewall, everything is as it should be.<br/>
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But one note of interest, the main file "Matrix" is now on it's own and on the hard drive and ...

<t> And I guess one other comment....<br/>
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Over the last five days since buying my new puter, have downloaded installed more then a dozen software programs that I had on the old one, for function etc, and that was on a system running ME lol.<br/>
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Have not had any issues with ...

<t> Ok thanks for the advice....<br/>
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Am going to install the game again tonight, and patch it right away, since I have an uptodate restore point for my date in the XP.<br/>
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And to WanderingHeads point I almost chose another folder when installing the patch, as the set up screens and ...

<t> OOPS foregot that during this time the virus scan and antivirus were disabled for the patch installation<br/>
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I do not believe this was a virus, because the scan found nothing, and the system is running as before the patch was installed, and then uninstalled with the game after the error ...

<t> Well was not running Norton, was the first thing I took off the puter when purchased, and installed the McAfee I have used for a long time.<br/>
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After restore the system with the XP restore and reinstalling the McAfee did the virus scan came up with nothing, the system is running fine ...

<t> Purchased a new computer, doing just fine with playing the game etc earlier version....<br/>
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Downloaded the patch and installed the same, major program errors, many programs affected, unable to launch most of the bigger applications ms works ms money etc, constant attempts by the ...

Yes I realized that after I ran the dxdiag, allways thought I had 64mb video....

Time for an upgrade, but I thought that ME was supported W2000 WME WXP?

Anyways that's all for now thanks for the help, will head off and read the manual until I have time to upgrade.

Yes the VM is kinda low 2040mb and has a built in video card

here is the dxdiag -

The file unitprod.bmp is present in the data area of the game, but will not load when attempting to start the game.

The game does not lock up, or crash the computer in the attempt to load, it just states the error message and aborts the game before it loads

The error occurs when the game is initially loading, it does not get to the main menu.

I uninstalled the game, and rebooted the computer, shut down the virus scan and firewall, and reinstalled the game, then rebooted again.

The same error occured.

<t> Having a bit of an issue, trying to get the game to load, sound and start screen all fine, loading progressing then at the last half of the load a fatal error occurs.<br/>
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750mhz, 512mbram, 64mb? Intel vid card, DX9c, WinMed9<br/>
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the error reads - file gui/unitprod.bmp not ...