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whilst playing 8.20 on a xp machine the colours of the units turn to multicolours ,smoke is bright blue it even effects the menus i seem to remember this from earlier versions but it hasnt happened for a long time anybody remember what the problem was ? pity this is happening the new version seems just great

I have no problem and am using XP

I experienced this on W98 and on XP if I had any other windows open at the same time.(SPWAW is a real power hog because of it's intense graphics and detail)..Close any other windows and in fact it's best to just open the game from a fresh boot rather than your CPU still providing power for closed applications...The problem should go away..If not,I suspect you have "hidden" applications running in the background,in which case I reccomend you acquire "Spookbot" or a similar application to check for same??(I got mine on download.com

ORIGINAL: fmphil

whilst playing 8.20 on a xp machine the colours of the units turn to multicolours ,smoke is bright blue it even effects the menus i seem to remember this from earlier versions but it hasnt happened for a long time anybody remember what the problem was ? pity this is happening the new version seems just great

I've had that happen when my automatic wallpaper changer switched pictures during a game. Do you have one of those running?

thanks for the comments guys but i found the problem my cpu was running at 28-34% occupancy with nothing running at first thought it was spyware but it was a program called CISVC.EXE ( Microsoft Index Service Helper, )
a service that monitors the memory usage of Microsoft Indexing Service (cidaemon.exe) and automatically re-starts cidaemon.exe if it uses more than 40 MB of memory
i closed this down by stopping indexing services and all is well
8.20 seems to be very good the ai seems better anyway and the graphics crisper
regards phil