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SPWAW - the dreaded Y key problem

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:38 pm
by Taiko
I put this in the SPWAW forum but was told this would probably be a better place.

Whenever I hit the "y" key while playing I get the black screen of death. I have to manually stop the program. Not only this, but when I try to re-load all my OOB are missing and the campaign is for all purposes gone. A "little" frustrating as you might imagine.

My sysytemis P4 2.6, with Nvidia 6800 Gforce. Playing 8.4 SPWAW. Latest XP updates and video drivers.

Someone asked if I used a Pop-up blocker, would this really cause a fault?

RE: SPWAW - the dreaded Y key problem

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:57 pm
by Hanu
It is because of new NVidia graphics drivers(WHY ?!?!?!). Dont ask me how come as it sound SO weird, but if you install (IIRC) pre 68.XX versions, it will work fine. I found this information from these support forums several months ago, but I cannot find it anymore. With ATI it works great.

Matrixgames is aware of this problem, but it has not released any patch for it. I wonder if they even care as it had been known for so long time without addressing this issue...

RE: SPWAW - the dreaded Y key problem

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:34 pm
by DarkIdol
still no update on this?