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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Making reliably running system on Mac OS-X or Linux or Solaris is for kids. Doing the same on Windows XP is the job for real men http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Making reliably running system on Mac OS-X or Linux or Solaris is for kids. Doing the same on Windows XP is the job for real men http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Heehee. Yes Windows does make it harder. But Ive actually not had any problems with WinXP. Im even able to play old Favorites like Master of Magic right along with the newest such as Temple of Elemental Evil. Im so glad I shifted off of WinME

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[ January 02, 2004, 16:40: Message edited by: Raven 1701 ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Have you bothered to check the list of processes you have running before you're claiming you are not running anything but the games? You'll find quite a bunch of processes running which you're not aware of. Most of them are useless for you (if you just play games), some may be harmful and only few are really needed. The problem is to find which ones are which. Good plan is to shutdown all of them and then reenable only those you know why you need. You can find more detailed information on MS website and XP support Groups. This is not very simple job, that's why comments that it takes plenty of efforts and knowledge to make XP run well.

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A techie might need to know exact driver Versions. 'latest' is unclear in case of products which have multiple driver families, e.g. nVidia-based video cards allow both the 'reference' drivers from nVidia and brand-specific drivers.
For some combinations, the latest drivers might not be the best... I recall that with _Shogun: Total War_, for instance, it was very hit-or-miss which nVidia reference drivers worked.

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The problem is not with DOM2, but with your machine.

Which driver Versions are you using?
Did you run dxdiag?
Would you care to save the info it generates and post it here?

At first, try running DOM with the -w command line switch - this should start it in windowed mode.

A.

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[ January 02, 2004, 16:40: Message edited by: Raven 1701 ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And your asking US for help? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Well, i have to agree since you know the in's and out's of computers, as i designed my Last three myself, that it is your computer...call it an anomaly if you will. The newest drivers for Nvidia products do not perform well, or work at all, for "some" games...that is the developers oversight. I have had to "roll back" the drivers for one or two "graphics intensive" games to get them to work but that aside it only seems logical that your "setup" won't run this game...there are SO many configurations but in my years of experience Windows XP can be wonderful after the steep learning curve. I design computers for Gaming ONLY, therefore after meticulous research i only use components that will be "game compatible" and i've had a 99% success rate...Win Me games being the elusive 1% that don't always work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif .I don't use the very latest Nvidia drivers...yet...it might be your only solution http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif . In your case after i have experienced Dominions 2 since it's release and consider myself a jaded game snob i would suggest buying/making a new PC...but that's just me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif . Good Luck!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ahhhh I see. A computer hardware guru. I understand, Im abit of an OS guru. That explains alot. A guru isnt a guru if he recommends the same things that 90% of the machines use. So I take it for granted that about half of your computer is made of parts that no local computer store ever heard of? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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[quote]Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
QUOTE: Ahhhh I see. A computer hardware guru. I understand, Im abit of an OS guru. That explains alot. A guru isnt a guru if he recommends the same things that 90% of the machines use. So I take it for granted that about half of your computer is made of parts that no local computer store ever heard of? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif [End Quote:]

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[ January 02, 2004, 02:20: Message edited by: Lord Hammer ]