Problem seems to be solved! Read a few more pages of posts, deleted pref.ini files and rebooted. Games seem to be running fine now, other than in-game videos (such as when you survey your first anomaly) are choppy. Guess I will work on that now. Thanks for your help!
Purchased the Gold Edition, successfully installed, updated, viewed the tutorials and started both games a couple of times; ran fine. Noticed the strong suggestion to make sure I had updated drivers, so downloaded and updated video drivers for my GeForce 5500. Now both games crash on clicking "Play the Game" at the opening screen. GC and DA both close and leave the little Windows dialog "GC has encountered an error and needs to close". Most unusual is that currently the only
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