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witpqs,

No luck either with Norton. Disabled it. No luck. Uninstalled it, no luck. Working through updates one by one but it is slow going. Will keep all posted once it either works, or doesn't.

I am fairly sure a window patch or install has changed the library versions.

I uninstalled 87 updates with nothing new - game still didn't run.

So I reinstalled the game, the 1106i update and - it partially works.

Problem is that in the game menu, all the letters are on a "black background". As I move my mouse down the menu, the words start to appear for the menu. Not much of a description - so I attached a screenshot.

Not sure what to do now... any suggestions?

Loading and running the game is sluggish.

Appreciate your help!

The sluggishness is probably due to a multi-core processor.  You need to add a command line switch or two to fix it.  With multi-core processors and sometimes with some graphics cards too, the cores end up fighting one another for control of the game. 

The best flag to start with is
-cpu1

The black background can come from another program running on the PC at the same time.  Do you have any other applications open?

If you are running in windowed mode, the black backgrounds sometimes clear if you click on a hex with nothing in it (like an empty ocean hex), then minimize the window and maximize it again.

Bill

Hoorah! Finally got it fixed.

Problem was with my video cards. I had to take it out of crossfire - X mode. That stopped the black letters. Now, the display looks correct again.

Thanks to everyone for trying to help me. Now - back to my 2 PBEMs.

CPOCMAN