The Dude

Everytime I attempt to play any game I crash back to the desktop. I get an appcompat.txt error. I think it only happens on programs that use DirectX (Ihave a screensaver that crashes too and that uses directX). This started to happen suddenly for no apparent reason after running smoothly before for several months. I'm running XP Pro, AMDXP 1.8Ghz, 1024Mb DDR RAM ATI Radeon 9700 Pro CL Soundblaster Live 5.1 I have searched the web and a number of newsgroups and loads of people have a appcompat.txt error, but no one has been able to fix it. I have updated my drivers to the latest versions. I have re-installed my OS after a complete re-format. I have tried rolling back to W2K and games still crash. Does anyone have any ideas?

I have a A7N8X Deluxe SKT A NForce2 Chipset Motherboard VER: 2.0 as far as I know I'm running at 8X There are no errors/crashes in the dxdiag tests and the AGP texture acceleration is not available in my Display tab.

What's your OS???? I know it installs fine on my PC which runs XP. There are some issues with it on w2k, but you can manually copy the files on to your HDD and run it from there. I think there are some problems with the sound though if memory serves me correctly. You should be able to find more help using a search engine (Search for Commandos install on Windows2000).