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Yes, I haven't tried multiplayer. I just want to play the single player campaign missions. I can't seem to get EBFD to work at all with ZoneAlarm running. I have tried to lock net access and even disable it all together, but it seems EBFD will only run properly (i.e. allow me to get to the OPTIONS menu) when I close ZoneAlarm :( Has anyone else ever experienced this? Any ideas why this occurs? I would've expected EBFD to run if I'd disabled all net access - I would've expected the game to think no net access is present. ???

I've found the culprit. It turns out to be ZoneAlarm - would you believe that, I have Norton 2003 running but instead of the obvious app it's ZoneAlarm causing the problem. I'm gonna timker with the settings - I'll post back my findings.

I have reasonably new 4in1 drivers - since my motherboard is quite old I think newer drivers will not be necessarry since mine are from march 2003 (4.46 - latest are 4.51). I'd rather not mess with those since they seem to work fine with everything else. As for the test res and refresh rates - I'll try them now and post back. Thanks for the swift responses Nyarlathotep - much appreciated :)

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I dug up EBFD and decided to give it a go. Initially I have the problem with choppy sound/video for the clips but I used the +W switch to fix this. The problem I have is I can't get into the OPTIONS menu either from the main menu or within the game (when selecting the missions during single player). Everytime I select the OPTIONS menu I get a screen with titled 'Options Menu' with a background image but no other text and no options to choose. I can't do anything from here - not even terminate EBFD using the task manager. I can get the Windows Start Menu and get it to shutdown Windows - this is the only way out. I can play the game fine (so far) - but at the default settings since I can't get into the options menu. I am running it on Windows XP which I appreciate it was not built for - but like I say, the game runs fine, it just freezes when I enter the OPTIONS menu. I have search through loads of posts here but can't find anything mentioning the same problem. I have tried it using the default installation and then again with the v1.09 patch. I have also downloaded and used the emporer.exe from EMPENGINSTFIX10.ZIP. :( Any ideas? Thanks :)