Game crash after each turn

[iszy69]

Hi any help would be appreicaited.

im running an athlon 750, 256 megs of ram, onboard sound and an asus ddr 32 meg vid card.
I have a phonline internet connection so i got my friend to dl the game for me. He then burnt it onto a cd and i copy and pasted all the files over to my pc. He got version 5.1 upgraded to 6.1 I have since upgraded it to version 7.1. It works fine on his pc.

Now whenever i play a single player scenerio and click on the next turn button the game will go back to the desktop.
Also timed, internet and email games crash.

I can only play campaigns which run fine. Plz help

[Supervisor]

If thats a full install of 7.1 you have, it would be best to uninstall SPWAW and install 7.1 clean. If you don't want to do this, try this, delete the steel.prf and holder.txt(if you have one) from the MatrixGames\SPWAW\save folder. And restart the game. You can also try running the game directly form the mech.exe file, this bypasses the autorun menu. If you choose not to delete and start fresh, reinstall the latest ver or patch you have, restart the computer and retry. Sometimes things don't always take and get updated properly the first time. If your applying the 7.1 patch remeber this, there is a space between Matrix and Games in the installation path that needs to be removed or the patch won't get applied properly (It should read MatrixGames). Does it happen on every single scenario? Did it come with the game or did you download it. If it only happens with one then the scenario is corrupted. Does the game 7.1 when it's started? Keep me posted

[iszy69]

I looked in my save folder and i dont have that file there. I deleted the holder one but it did not solve the problem. I did not install the game so to speak i merely copied it from a cd, then patched it from 6.1 to 7.1

[iszy69]

This problem happens on every single scenerio, excpet for campiagns games which run fine. I properly applied the 7.1 patch and have bypassed the autorun by starting the game with mech.exe. It reads v 7.1 at the bottom.

[Supervisor]

The game needs to be installed not just copied because certain files and entries must be registered to the system. See if your same friend will download and burn you a copy of SPWAW 7.1 full version this will definatley fix your problem. Without properly installing I can't help much at this point. So my advice would be install not copy.

[iszy69]

Thank you for your advice and I will get my friend to dl me v7.1 zip file. I will then install it. Thank you very much

[Supervisor]

Keep me informed on how it goes, this is the easiest way to start with a known clean installation!