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Make it three people now Paul. I got virtually the same problems as the first two guys almost verbatim. I've reinstalled Win98 but have yet to reboot. I'm almost afraid to after reading Lawrenson post. Here is my sys info:

Processor: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 6 466 MHz Stepping 5
Math Support: On Chip
BIOS: American Megatrends 02/24/99
Bus Type: PCI
Ports: 1 Parallel, 2 Serial
Memory: 64.0 MB (83% Utilized)
Hard Disks: 7.87 GB
Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM
Video: 800x600 in 64K Colors, 3dfx Voodoo3 Ver. 4.0

Windows98: 4.10 (Build 1998 )
Dos: 7.10
Note that this is NOT an old motherboard. This system is just over a year old.
As it stands now I do not intend to install mgn unless you guys are able to tell me why this happened

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McGib
Ready Aye Ready

One other question, does "unwise" uninstall mgn? I got a partial install and I REALLY want to undo what this thing has done to my system.

I almost forgot. During installation the program stopped part way to tell me that a type of file was in use, obr I think, and I had to reboot my computer so the program could write over these files. It was during this reboot that my computer crashed hard. No one else has mentioned this so I thought I had better.

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McGib
Ready Aye Ready

Thanks McGib - Did any of you other guys see this "file in use" thing...that should not be occuring and likely is an indictor that something is amiss...

We may be onto something.

Unwise should uninstall everyting.

Thanks for the email reply Paul. The web page is welcome news. I was rather disappointed when things went wrong last night and thinking that I would not be able to play online.

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McGib
Ready Aye Ready

Hey McGib,
Care to share with the rest of us what "the web page" you referred to refers to? I am alos very fearful of attempting to install MGN and also don't want to be left out...

We are working on a web based method of interacting with the client, we'll let you know if its successful...



[This message has been edited by Paul Vebber (edited September 13, 2000).]

Cool Paul, that's what I figured, just wanted to get some "official" word on what you were up to.

Sorry Windo, I thought I should let Paul mention the page. I guess I should never had said anything about it to begin with. Sorry.

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McGib
Ready Aye Ready

No = its OK...I just don't know for sure yet if its going to work...but thought folks should know we are working on an alternative.

I'm using Windows 2000 Pro and the MSN and SPWAW 4.0 are working perfectly. I did both an upgrade from v2.3 and the full install with no problem. My question, how do I know that the MSN is really working? I have 'connected' several times but I have never seen anyone else on the site. I may have to install SPWAW on my laptop and play with myself!

This may be too late to help, but just so y'all know, it happened to me as well. I had to reinstall win '98. Since then, my system has run perfectly, although I have not re-installed MGN. I had the VFAT problem when I tried to load windows after booting from a boot disk(However that may be a version incompatibility problem between the disk and windows on my c drive).
My system is as follows:

PII 400
128 mb RAM
6gb EIDE drive (c)
4gb SCSI drive (d: where SPWAW lives)
SCSI adapter
Voodoo 2
NVidia 128mb graphics
56k modem

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the stellar job that you all have done, both in building the game SPWAW and the Matrix culture. The Matrix model is one that all game companies, regardless of size or genre, should aspire to. It is refreshing, after such debacles as Origin, to find a company that truly cares about the quality of the product that they release and the services that they provide. Bravo.

Hi guys, look like a good games.
Thanks.
Just thought I add another data point.
Ditto on the crash.
I am running Win95 on a 333MHz tyan slot 1 1830 motherboard. 150+Meg memory, 10+GB drives partitioned in 2G segments, 2 CDROMs, one is a CDR, and Viper II Utra Video Card.
I was loading the update, then went to install MNX, restarted and Ouch!!!
Lost a lot of information, mainly because I didn't have a start disk and recognized it as a serious problem.

After fooling around, I reached the point of nonrecovery so reformat, installed second 15GB HD (30GB now) and reinstalled all software (excuse for getting latest drivers and making startup/recovery disk).
I still haven't built up the nerve to hit the MNX install button again. I think I'll wait to see how this message thread turns out.

Oops forgot to add.
My second install was the using the full version on a clean system. So maybe, I won't have the problem.
Now back to playing

My system didn´t crash (celeron 600, 128Mb, Win98), but SpWAW didn´t work, got a bluescreen. Deleted whole program, computer worked properly.

I also had to format my hard drive after MGN client program installation. The problem was precisely like decribed in the beginning of this thread.

Now I am wondering if any you (Jack, Lawrenson, McGib) who had this problem have dared to try to install the client program again (newer version)? I haven't dared to do that.

-Rauski

ps. my set-up was following:
Pentium 75 MHz (clocked to 100MHz)
Intel Triton motherboard
Ami BIOS
32MB RAM
800MB partly compressed hard drive (yes, this is true)
Win98

ps2. SPWaW is running quite well in my machine too. Thanks to Matrix team about that too!

No, haven't installed the MGN program. I have downloaded and installed the Combat Net v 1.1 the other day and it hasn't caused any problems.

I don't know if this has anything to do with MGN, but my D-drive went nuts, twice. I lost a lot of programs, including SPWAW. I'm glad that only the D-partition FAT32 was messed up, the OS is on C-drive. I have installed MGN a couple of times, but I suspected other programs before I read this thread.