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Because of this game and a few others here at Matrix, I have become much more selective of what I purchase. This game has become shelfware for me. There are a couple of developers I won't buy from anymore because of their games not receiving the support I feel they should have. This is one of them.

Good luck with this game, as it looks better than it did for me.
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Hi Larry , i think the cause of your problem is direct draw like in many other older games. You need to found a programmer who creates a directdraw wrapper for this game.
This helped me for panzergeneral 3d scorched earth and people general.
I cant give you the names of the programmers because they has no time for other projects for the moment.
But i whish you good luck on your surch.
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I have tried this game on Win7, XP, and Vista and the text is garbage on every platform.
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sTRANGE; FOR ME IT WORKS GREAT. I think its a problem of your graphiccard. A solution will need time. You should not count on help from the gamedevelopers.
When they cant make a lot of money anymore with the game the support runs to zero like in all old games, we must help ourselfes.
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I've used three different graphic cards. I have spent weeks working with this game last year, I'm done.
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You shouldn"t give up to fast. Not many programmers are interested to help the fan comunity of older roundbased games.
But from time to time you can found such a good soul. Here is a directdrawwrapper which can help you maybe :

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.p ... 675a87e169

Read careful the topic and put the draw dll and the configure file to your game mainfolder. For me it works good.

Micha
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I had the same problem that Larry P had also with this game. Even worse in fact as the graphics were so crap for the troops on screen the game was unplayable. I tried every single one of the 'fixes' offered and none of them worked. This was a 'game breaker' for me. I haven't looked at this game in over a year but had some spare time today and decided to 'look in' to see what kind of support had been offered. Now I see. NOTHING!

I have pretty well written off Matrix Games now for anything. I have been burned too many times now. No support for "For Liberty" also. I'm out of here!

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ORIGINAL: XLegion

I had the same problem that Larry P had also with this game. Even worse in fact as the graphics were so crap for the troops on screen the game was unplayable. I tried every single one of the 'fixes' offered and none of them worked. This was a 'game breaker' for me. I haven't looked at this game in over a year but had some spare time today and decided to 'look in' to see what kind of support had been offered. Now I see. NOTHING!

I have pretty well written off Matrix Games now for anything. I have been burned too many times now. No support for "For Liberty" also. I'm out of here!


For Liberty was a real bum deal for me too. I got tired of going into menus and NOT being able to click a Cancel button if I made an error. The devs stood by the fact that Cancel buttons were not going to ever happen. Among other things too, I gave up on the game.

H&M was an entire waste of money. Can't read the text at times. My gaming habits have moved on and so I'm seldom here at Matrix anymore.

Wish I had an easy fix, but I don't. [&:]
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Wished I'd read this thread before I purchased this product as I suffer from the same issues[&:] It's now approximately 4 years on from the last post on this thread and it seems nothing has been done to help those of us who have this issue.[:-]

The only consolation for me is that I bought it on sale
"I'm sorry, baby. Start your countdown without me and I'll be back before you can say 'Blast off!'"
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I gave up on this game the same time I posted in 2012. Sad.
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It's very sad. Maybe one day it will get the attention it needs
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If it hasn't by now, I doubt it.
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