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I am having a constant problem with the game when I click the start button game it flicks back to the initial start screen. We same version of the game.

can someone please help

Cav,

Are you on the Game main menu screen? What button are you clicking on this screen?

What version of the game as you running?

Cary

Cary,

Thanks for the response.

I could not get even to this screen. It was the main start the game screen, I was just clicking the button that says play the game the big wide one at the bottom. The game sort of starts for about 2 secs but then reverts back to the initial screen.

We are both using the latest version.

Here is a very odd thing. If I turn off in windows 10 dictation software that comes on at startup, the game is loading OK at the moment. This is such a weird thing, the software is not on or in dictation mode.

I will post it again if I have further trouble.

Cav

Cav,

Here's what I suggest. Rather than use the "War in the West (Game Menu)", use the "War in the West (Quick Start)", which will take you straight to the game. I never use the Game Menu.

You also can pin the Quick Start to your Windows tool bar. The EXE file usually is located at "C:\Matrix Games\Gary Grigsby's War in the West\WarInTheWest.exe".

And one other suggestion: unless you enjoy the opening videos, change the name of the Video folder to "Video.XXX" and then they won't play. I delete the folder myself, and also the Sounds folder, because I never use either.

Cary

OK and thanks.

Cavalry Corp,
Apologize for reviving this thread but you gave me an idea. I had the same problem. About half a year before game worked fine. Then I didn't play it for several months during which I enabled Windows Speech Recognition. Today I tried to start the game and it behaved as you described.
For me this solution worked: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4852428
but it seems probable that Speech Recognition triggered the problem.

OK thanks for posting - Since then I have no problems but leave SR always off during games , thanks for posting glad you fixed it.

Speech recognition is indeed the problem on Win 10 in both a standard install or a Steam install. The easiest way I found to discover all the places where it needs to be turned off is to just hit the Windows command panel and search for "Speech". This should have been patched a long time ago.