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Yep, this is just what I tried. Again, the game engine works, he just gets one background screen trying to superimpose over the forground one. Very odd. Well, thanks for all the suggestions. I am moving, over the next few days, so won't be back to check messages for about a week.

I can answer thisone, as he gets all my used parts, when I upgrade. He is using an nVidia 8800, so he should be more than set.

Well, now, that is very odd. I shall tell him to reinstall, and see if that problem persists. Thanks for checking. If it does, I'll try to get him to send a screen shot of it happening.

Thanks for the suggestions. When I was over there, I did try emulation mode, for both XP sp2 and XP sp3, and had no luck. Also tried with and without directX, full screen and windowed, with and without directSound, interlaced and not, etc. Nothing seemed to work. I would feel funny pestering someone...

Thanks, I will pass this along. I won't be back to his place for a while, and I'm not sure he is willing to learn a new setup (read: I might have to go there and do it myself), so it might take me a bit to get back to you. Thanks again. And, if anyone else has other suggestions, involving direct DW ...

A buddy of mine has this game and showed me the other day, when I was over his place. It ran awful. The background textures kept on flickering to solid black (with the box of the first menu screen showing a little bit), then back to normal. He said it only happened when he upgraded from XP to Win 7,...