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oh yeah; also (i dunno if this has been mentioned before), while searching for answers, i stumbled across this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=09DAC794-B803-4B92-83C9-6A9E8B801434 it's the Windows Application Compatiblity Toolkit, and i found a setting for Emperor in there, which i thought might be interesting to other people having problems with this game while running Windows XP. according to this setting, Emperor needs a fix called EmulateSlowCPU in order to run properly under XP, which is described like this: "This compatibility fix modifies the return values of QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency in order to emulate those expected from performance checking routines to emulate slower processors. If +timeGetTime is specified as a command line, timeGetTime will never return the same value on consecutive calls." it didn't help me (since i still have the damn rainbows), but it might help someone else having problems with slowdowns or anything of the kind.

i've now tried to run the game both in winme and win98se, and both versions bomb me back to desktop after the first two movies. just for the heck of it, i also made a vanilla install of winxp, installing only the earliest drivers i could find for the radeon 9100, and it still displayed the rainbow-coloured menu. i guess i'm out of luck, seems emperor doesn't like my 9100 card one bit. :) anyway, next thing is to dig up an old geforce-card and see how things go with that. oh well. :) thanks for the answers & suggestions everyone.

hi! i tried lowering desktop res to 1024x768 16-bit, yielded no results, also tried all the compatibility-modes, and all NT-modes work, but both win95 and win98/winme bombs me back to desktop after the two intro movies. i'm not able to alt-tab, either, cause if i do, i'm greeted with a completely black screen once i alt-tab back to the game, and then i have to kill it using process manager. i've successfully ran several other westwood titles on this machine, using the exact same settings for everything. both renegade and c&c generals work fine, for example. i don't think the radeon is the problem here, since that other guy (Radar) from what i could tell, ran it on a geforce-card. my next quest is to create another partition and install win98 on it, and see if it runs from there. i'll report back about what happens. thanks :)

yes, i've pretty much tried everything concerning graphic settings, tried disabling/enabling ati-features, etc etc. nothing works. this is weird.

yes, i can actually use all the menus, no lock-ups or anything. i'll try out some different older/beta ati drivers and see if that works.

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windows xp pro, latest ati drivers, tried both original version and 1.09 patch, and no overclocking involved whatsoever. this really bugs me out, i haven't got a clue. :)

hi, i tried playing emperor on windows xp using a radeon 9100 128mb card. the game installed fine, started fine, the movies all played fine, but when the game menu appeared, it looks totally weird (see attached file). anyone know what's causing this? and anyone know how to fix it?[attachment archived by Gobalopper]