TTown_Winger

OK, I bought this game finally this weekend because the patch has finally been released. I saw that Best Buy was selling for $14.99 but they were out. I wanted this game so I went to CompUSA and bought it for $43.16 after tax. Right now I'm feeling so screwed. I hope someone can help me. I could not get it to run after install and patch, it would immediately CTD. So, i reformatted my HD (NTFS), reinstalled OS and all updated drivers and it worked intermittently. Sometimes when I hit escape it would reboot my machine, other times it would still crash to desktop. When it ran it looked great and I wanted more! Here are my machine and specs: 1.2G Duron ABIT KT-7E 512M PC-133 SDRAM Maxtor 40G 7200, ATA-100 Gainward Geforce 4 Golden Sample MX440, 64M Creative Soundblaster Live Microsoft FF2 Joystick WinXP Pro SP1 41.09 win2kxp video drivers Syncmaster 955DF Drivers for monitor DirectX 8.1 from Strike Fighters CD SBLive drivers from CD My Strike Fighters CD says it is 24147CD1 Pre-patch my Strike Fighters version appears to be 10.11.02 from the main page. Now I've tried an uninstall/reinstall/patch (a few times)to see if it could clear up my problems and I get this wonderful error: The File C:Program FilesStrategy FirstStrike FightersObjectsAircraftA-4eUSMC Grey1A-4_Nose.bmp is not a valid previous version and could not be upgraded. The game crashes immediatley now and won't start up. I have not downloaded any mods, I've just been trying to get this to work properly. I uninstalled using the uninstall option from the Strike Fighters menu. I've also verified no folder was left. I checked my Registry via REGEDIT and I can't find anything (from what I can tell). I've also played with sound acceleration by lowering it halfway in Windows and switching between 16 & 24 in the game sound options. I'm really frustrated and confused, I've never had a game this troublesome. Any input you have to help me get this flying is very much appreciated. Thanks in Advance!!!!!

OK, I bought this game finally this weekend because the patch has finally been released. I saw that Best Buy was selling for $14.99 but they were out. I wanted this game so I went to CompUSA and bought it for $43.16 after tax. Right now I'm feeling so screwed. I hope someone can help me. I could not get it to run after install and patch, it would immediately CTD. So, i reformatted my HD (NTFS), reinstalled OS and all updated drivers and it worked intermittently. Sometimes when I hit escape it would reboot my machine, other times it would still crash to desktop. When it ran it looked great and I wanted more! Here are my machine and specs: 1.2G Duron ABIT KT-7E 512M PC-133 SDRAM Maxtor 40G 7200, ATA-100 Gainward Geforce 4 Golden Sample MX440, 64M Creative Soundblaster Live Microsoft FF2 Joystick WinXP Pro SP1 41.09 win2kxp video drivers Syncmaster 955DF Drivers for monitor DirectX 8.1 from Strike Fighters CD SBLive drivers from CD My Strike Fighters CD says it is 24147CD1 Pre-patch my Strike Fighters version appears to be 10.11.02 from the main page. Now I've tried an uninstall/reinstall/patch (a few times)to see if it could clear up my problems and I get this wonderful error: The File C:Program FilesStrategy FirstStrike FightersObjectsAircraftA-4eUSMC Grey1A-4_Nose.bmp is not a valid previous version and could not be upgraded. The game crashes immediatley now and won't start up. I have not downloaded any mods, I've just been trying to get this to work properly. I uninstalled using the uninstall option from the Strike Fighters menu. I've also verified no folder was left. I checked my Registry via REGEDIT and I can't find anything (from what I can tell). I've also played with sound acceleration by lowering it halfway in Windows and switching between 16 & 24 in the game sound options. I'm really frustrated and confused, I've never had a game this troublesome. Any input you have to help me get this flying is very much appreciated. Thanks in Advance!!!!!