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ORIGINAL: Jason Petho

Middle East=e:\Matrix Games\Campaign Series Middle East

Try changing the settings txt to that?

Jason Petho

Jason,

Don't mean to butt into your conversation here, but had to thank you for this tip.
I did this change + added a desktop shortcut and it works fine outside the game.
I'm running Win7.

Big Ivan

You're most welcome!

Glad it works!

Jason Petho

I'm still having problems with the UnitViewer, and was wondering if I'm the only one seeing this.

In both JTCS and CSME, the UnitViewer will not display any of the additional functions (Compare, Range Tables, Unit Base, etc.) when opened from within the game. I can (most of the time) get everything to work by opening the viewer from outside of the game, but only when opened in Administrator mode... and even this doesn't work all the time.

The bigger problem is that, when I open the viewer in Admin mode, the game screen gets all screwy... as i scroll the screen, the screen either "copies itself" (see the picture below) or goes completely white. The game runs perfectly well in the background, but there's no way to restore the view without saving and exiting out. Refresh view does nothing.

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The other minor, recurring annoyance, when opening UnitViewer from outside the game, is trying to find the unit I'm looking for... Inside the game, the selected unit displays, but I need to search for it from outside. This isn't much of an issue in the WW II games because I'm familiar with the majority of the units. For CSME, I use F2 0r F3 almost every time I select a unit.

I've tried setting up the game exe to open only in Admin mode to see if that would work. As mentioned in my OP, I usually run the game on a Win 10 machine, but I've had nearly identical issues with two other computers, one a laptop and the other a desktop... Anyone else seeing this issue?

I am seeing none of these issues. (Neither AFAIK are any other members of the Dev Team.) Not to say you are not; you obviously are seeing them. But:

[*]If we can't see these issues ourselves, we can't debug them.
[*]Often, issues like these are due to differences in video cards, and their drivers (which may be buggy).
[*]The Unit Viewer is an add-on utility. We do not program it.

A suggestion: If you can afford it, a second monitor is great for playing the game in one monitor, while referencing the Manual, Unit Viewer, the Forum (in your web browser), etc. in the second monitor.

We provide the Unit Viewer as an add-on convenience for the players. We can't support it fully ourselves. Sorry if it doesn't work out well for you.