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and tks in advance for your help... !

Right, I've done some checking on this IrrKlang and it turns out I am a total programming spas really (nothing new there then).....I was trying to install their latest patch so that I could claim everything was up to date - can't do that, no idea how to, its all just a bunch of files and things. SO....

Right, I have got the game to load properly with a working mouse - the solution (well workaround) was to disable all sound effects.......why I didn't notice this before I don't know, but that was what was causing all the problems. My question then - how do I get the game loadable with sound now ? Wh...

ok thanks so far - I will try some of these things then report back with my findings......

tried that already (tried most of the different options actually in various different combinations) - haven't tried the divx codecs yet. Whichever settigns I use the load up screen still stays blank for ages, ie. same problem as before. Would the codecs affect game screen itself though ? surely they...

Well basically I load up and get a black screen for what seems like too long a time (1 minute +) - the little film originally played ok......then sometimes if I do ctrl+alt=del I eventually end up in that screen with the 4 choices and a mouse cursor that doesn't move.....but only after going in and ...

*bump* Exact same problem here (also xp) with the gold version except my mouse pointer in game screen also doesn't move - was there a solution to this at all ? Since no other game causes a similar problem and we're talking mainstream Nvidia cards here I seriously doubt its a graphics card issue and ...