RoyinWA

Agreed. It is very disappointing that TA was never fixed. Superior AI is near the top of my list for any game. The evil races not expanding is a gamebreaker. Stardock may be spread too thin these days or maybe they aren't hungry anymore due to past success. Before I cant imagine they would still have a broken product so long after release. I quit playing TA ages ago, and decided to wait for the patch. Which has never come. Unbelievable that the glowing reviews of TA missed these

Tried the two suggestions by Kryo, still crashed after leaving galaxy screen. Deleting prefs.ini however seems to have fixed the problem. Sidequestion: DA has slow load times, upwards of 4 min. Laptop only a year old. Dreadlords was much faster. Out of curiosity, how long is DA taking to load for others? Roy

I'm getting the same crash after leaving the Galaxy setup screen. This started with the new patch, as DA had been working fine on the previous patch. Reinstalling did not help. thanks for the help Roy Debug Message: Version v1.6 Dark Avatar last updated on: Wed Jun 6 08:51:50 2007 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 6/10/2007, 02:14:22 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.000