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Installed Patch v07.10.06 and now I am having problems. The game launches, I get the UI screen and music, and then it minimizes to the task bar. I noticed that if I restart my computer the game will launch, but if I close it and try to launch it again, no joy. The game ran fine before. I don't know if the problem is because of the patch, Direct X or my updated video drivers. My install before the problems included: SFP1_sp051506b.exe SFP1_p052506.exe Thirdwire website now only shows the 05.15.06 service update and the 07.10.06 patch. I am having the same problem with WOV. So, I copied the problem installs to a different location and uninstalled both games and deleted the directories. Then I reintalled Project 1 from CD and updated it with the sp05.15.06 and then patch 07.10.06. The same problem exists. I am not getting any error messages displayed, however when I go into System Information/Software Environment/Windows Error Reporting I get 8/5/2006 8:13 AM Application Hang Fault bucket 308533534. 8/5/2006 8:13 AM Application Hang Hanging application FlightSim.exe, version 7.10.6.8, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000. System Information: Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2 Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.06GHz 1024MB RAM DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) (updated as of 8/4/06 - version 6.0.2600.0) PNY, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (128mb), Driver Version: 6.14.0010.9131 (English)

I uninstalled the Nero DVD software, deleted the registry key and re-installed the software. However, this time I choose only to have it control DVD files instead of all files (i.e., wav, avi, etc.). I have been in and out of WOV several times and not once have I had it minimize to the taskbar. Maybe something in the NERO software was intercepting video from the game. I guess when I installed NERO and made it the default media player it was trying to intercept the game video.

More system information about the problem. Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Hang Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 8/6/2006 Time: 1:05:47 PM User: N/A Computer: RICKEY-1 Description: Fault bucket 292458224. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket: 0008: 32 39 32 34 35 38 32 32 29245822 0010: 34 0d 0a 4.. Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Hang Event Category: (101) Event ID: 1002 Date: 8/6/2006 Time: 1:05:44 PM User: N/A Computer: RICKEY-1 Description: Hanging application WOV.exe, version 5.15.6.4, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang 0010: 20 20 57 4f 56 2e 65 78 WOV.ex 0018: 65 20 35 2e 31 35 2e 36 e 5.15.6 0020: 2e 34 20 69 6e 20 68 75 .4 in hu 0028: 6e 67 61 70 70 20 30 2e ngapp 0. 0030: 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 61 74 0.0.0 at 0038: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 offset 0040: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 00000000

Still having the same problem with both SP-1 and WOV. I thought it was the video drivers, but after changing out the drivers the problem remains. Tried disabling anti-virus software, but it had no effect on the problem.