[Noah_Vaile]

Allow me to (perhaps) clarify. The flickers occur only when I am doing something in the (generate-, long-) campaign set up window. Each time I change the month/year/decade, country flag, number of battles, etc. the entire window flickers. So far all I have played is the long and generated campaigns. This does not happen in the actual game play.

When I am in the (individual) battle-map edit window (View Map) and I go to the "Set OBJ" window and move my 'flag-icon' objectives about the map the entire screen, map and 'view obj', jumps and flickers with each movement of the map screen and anytime the mouse pointer touches the edge of the screen the entire screen trembles (its like an eight on the Richter scale) and flickers.

None of this happens during actual game play or in any other screens than the 'view map', 'set obj' and 'game set up' screens. As far as my limited experience goes anyway. I have done the DXDiag and have no idea what is going on in it. I don't know what it 'should' tell me and no idea of what it does tell me. I am not sophisticated enough to recognize problems that do not hit me upside the head with a 2x4. Again, I don't even know if the flickering and trembling are problems or simple artifacts- of the game or my computer.

I had to erase the hard drive on this computer several months ago and re-install Me. There is nothing on it but a few games: winSPWW2 1.01B & SPWW2 7.01, winSPMBT, SPWAW, Pz General-2, Peoples General and SP-3. The only other programs are the basic Windows Me o/s. It has never been hooked up to the internet since the re-install.

This is in no way a significant, important or in any way debilitating problem and I mentioned it out of 1) curiosity, to see if other people are experiencing it and 2) to see if it might be an early symptom of a more significant problem, either with my unique download or somewhere else in my (closed) system. I know there is no "settling in" of these programs, that was an atempt at anthropomorphism/humor.

Helm: What do you mean by "when my virus runs"? Do you mean your anti-virus?