Ken_Oh

OK, could you explain exactly what you have to do to play without activating? I don't quite understand what you're saying.

Heh, tell me about it. I reinstalled again, this time in the default directory, and still no dice. Looks like if I want to play new maps it's going to have to be on the older, laggier machine. I guess it's just a shame that Dune 2k's time has come and gone, thus there'll be no more support for it, from either the players or the makers. Anyway, thanks for the info!

I'll just take this opportunity to post a problem that I have too. Every, and I mean EVERY, map editor I've tried to install has failed. I'll just talk about the most recent, Shai-Hulud 2000. I get this error after I install, when I try to start it up for the first time "Failed to load control 'SSTab' from TABCTL32.OCX." Any clues? I'm running WinXP and all I want to do is activate some of the player-made maps. EDIT: Nevermind. I found an updated version of TABCTL32.OCX on the web and now it works. But, now when I activate a map, it makes the game have no lettering on the menus and I can't get to the multiplayer screen (I hit practice and a nameless button comes up which takes me back one step). Reinstalling the 1.6 patch clears that but I can't get to the maps. What I find funny is that no 3rd party software I've tried for Dune 2000 have worked. Not the 3 map editors or even TibEd. EDIT #2: OK, I tried it on another machine and I think I know what the problem is. All of these mods and editors don't want to work when you install Dune 2k on a drive other than what your OS is on. Oh well.