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I am having problems when I start a tactical battle. The game launches the tactical battle but immediately goes to the main menu. I try to alt tab to the tactical battle map and either the map is all black or it immediately goes to the main menu again. Before I even alt tab the game acts like its alt tabbing on its own back to the main menu.

Any ideas on how to get this working?

Thanks

Hi,

This is a bug in 1.80. We will have a patch out soon that fixes it. If you are using other than 1.80, let us know.

I used patch 1.75. I also reinstalled DirectX and have the latest video drivers. I chose to fight a tactical battle. I had to alt tab just to get to the tactical battle map. When I got there the main tactical map is all black, so I tried the below and let it run for an hour. The map never changed.

This is all on Windows Vista 32bit version.

Problem: After switching to another application (ALT-TAB, pop-up, screensaver) and returning to the game the screen turns and remains black.
Solution: If there is any window open in the game (Recruitment, Army details, etc), close the window, switch to another application by using ALT-TAB, then switch back to the game. If this does not help, save the game, exit to the menu then reload. It takes 10-30 seconds for the map to redraw, be patient!

I forgot to say that fast combat works fine.

You could try to save the game after you have entered the battle and then reload it. It may work this way - worth a try.

I tried that with no luck. Vista gives me the error below after I exit the game.

I guess the game needs that D3DRM.dll which Vista doesn't have.

Thanks anyways.

Product
Unknown Program

Problem
Program Compatibility Assistant

Date
7/27/2007 11:51 AM

Status
Report Sent

Description
This program requires D3DRM.dll, which is no longer included in this version of Windows.

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: ApphelpSoftBlock
Problem Signature 01: {11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111}
Problem Signature 02: {2C491A5A-A833-4C51-9693-BF966A2B4C69}
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 9927949

A possible solution?
https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowP ... 8&SiteID=1

Excerpt: "I went to : http://www.driverskit.net/dll/get/494.html and downloaded the "d3drm.dll" and placed the file in the following path as directed by DELL tech support: c:\windows\system32 . IT WORKED!!!!"

It is not our game but a similar problem.

Thanks for the link and info, but it didn't help much. The map is still black, but the good news is the game no longer gives me an error. I can just exit it without any issues.