Re: Fullscreen not working
The full screen modes the game supports must be supported by the hardware & your video drivers. This not much of a problem with a CRT monitor (CRTs can rescale) but can be on a flat screen LCD (LCDs do not tend to rescale, or can do it at a fuzzy interpolated mode).
The most likely reason for your DirectX error would be trying to run a LCD monitor at the wrong resolution in full screen mode. For example are you trying to run a 1280x800 native wide screen LCD at perhaps 1280x1024 normal Windows mode?.
Windowed mode allows rescaling (assuming you have the CD version for those over 800 mode) on some of these wide-screen lcd screens that depart from windows standard pixel formats. The game will fit to the 1280x800 desktop, by chopping off the lower part of the 1280x1024 windows-standard display to fit.
The next problem may be Vista. As neither Don or I have vista machines, it is not a supported operating system. You may well be able to run the game on it at your own risk, but it could have hiccups.
Cheers
Andy
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