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Thx for the hint. Cursor problem is now gone but unfortunately, after a few minutes of playing the game, everything becomes black. The menus, the star map, ... My screen however is still active.

Uh, sorry if that sounds weird, but where does one find this "SMS"? Using Google to find it doesn´t yield useful results...

Thanks to you two. I´ll check out those programs.

Logging onto the Win2k Server locally shows applications running (like Norton AV) in the taskbar. Back to my workstation, I try to log onto the server again using the terminal client. Althou I´ve used the same name ans pass as locally, I am not able to see these given applications running. I´m trying to solve this for almost a week now, without success. Please help me out.

This problem gets worse the higher the DirectX version you have installed. Moo2 plays fine with Win2k´s built in DX7, freezes the mouse once in a while with DX8.1 and is completely unplayable with DX9 due to a non moving pointer. Unfortunately I don´t have a solution for this annoying "thing" (don´t know if it´s actually a bug). One thing is for sure: Microsoft screw up again

I´m currently working on a bootable recovery CD and have run across a few things I just can´t seem to figure out. The first OS on that CD is going to be DOS with the DOS part of Partition Magic 8.0. This alone is no problem at all. The second OS is the one the rescue disks of Acronis TrueImage come with. I need this in case of systemwide Windows partitions failures, so I can just write back a previously saved image. My problem is how to get both OSes and a boot manager onto one CD-ROM. If you have any tips, hints or advices, please post here.

Althou the latest patch does support TCP/IP UDP protocol, not being able to run the game using IPX/SPX can be a real pain in the ass. I had exactly the same problem. All the support from the Blizzard FAQ didn´t work for me. I finally managed to fix the problem by disabling certain services of Win2k or setting them to "manual". If my memory serves me right, I postet the solution into this forum. It might still be there; try using the search function.

Tried with Application Compatibility Toolkit. Didn´t work. Perhaps a Win2k SP3 specific problem; will check with Win2k SP2 asap. In the meantime, could one of you please check with WinXP / XP SP1?

Just wanted to play this classic again but noticed it won´t even start. Installed perfectly by running Setup with the added "-lgntforce" parameter. Applying the patch was successful, too. But as soon as I try to run the game, even by using this "-lgntforce" parameter it just returns to the desktop. Any clues? I´m using Win2k SP3. For hardware used, look at my sig.

If you´re looking for Digital Audio IO-Boards or a Digital Audio IO-Panel to use with your SB Live / Audigy check this out: http://www.opticompo.de/audio/index.html

GLQuake is from the day before yesterday. Instead, give Tenebrae a shot: http://users.pandora.be/hollemeersch/blackrose/tenebrae/ If your machine has enough power, that is

Quote: I think I would just buy a DVD player. I´ve been looking for those but the combo of functions I require are not available in any product the market has to offer. So I have to build my own... What I need most is uninterrupted layer change. This alone sorts out 95% of the available stand alone players. The remaining 5% have to be codefree, disabled macrovision, disabled user prohibitions plus being able to switch off even forced subtitles. Well, unfortunately we´re now at 0% of the available stand alone players.

I´m currently looking for a way to slim down Windows XP Professional to as little as possible. All that it needs to do is playing DVD titles via WinDVD and running the graphics + sound. I don´t need no fancy background pictures nor desktop themes, no internet connection, no nothing except the above mentioned DVD playback. Any suggestions?

What screen resolutions does the game have? I only can select from 1600 x 1200 upwards, no 1280 x 1024, no 1024 x 768. Strange...

There´s no way to play Privateer using anything different than plain old DOS. This was discussed alot here, so if you want details on that please use the search function.