Battle for Dune freezes big time on '98

[strider]

  Hey nice site.  I spent the day looking around the site and came upon a 10 page thread about the same problem.  My PC used to run Battle for Dune without a hitch.  Now no matter what I have tried it will run the disks but will randomly freeze/lock up to the point where I have to Ctrl, Alt, Delete., or pull the plug.  The Harkonnen disk lets me play the longest, up to 2 missions before I have to restart.  The Ordos freezes 30 seconds into the first mission.  I have shut down my firewall and anti-virus programs, turned off shadows, lowered my graphics/ game speed/ mouse speed.  Nothing so far helps.  I went and bought a 512 stick of RAM but it didn't help.  Now the thing I have noticed is,  when I first d/l'ed the install disk way back when, it installed fairly fast (a couple of minutes) this was when I made it through the Atreides missions without a hitch.  Later on after playing other games like Red Alert2 and Renegade I went back to Dune and it locked up so I just didn't play it.  I have now re-installed it and read these forums and can not for the life of me find a fix for this freezing up.  Any suggestions are welcome,  I'm stuck.  Man what a first post.  Oh by the way I was surprised to find this site.  EBFD is a great game.

[Megashrap]

I'm sure there are plenty of peeps to help you out, but this really got my attention some...

  when I first d/l'ed the install disk way back when,

d'loaded?  :O  :-X

[strider]

Ya you know take the instal disk out of rhe jewel case and put in pc to install game to hard drive.  Thats what I meant by d/l'ed.  Sorry if I wasn't clear on this.

[erjin999]

Nice answer  ;)

Drivers have been updated ? Have they changed since the first time you installed ? Sometimes emp doesnt like new drivers too.

[strider]

  Well after messing with the sound card drivers and video card drivers to no avail I am giving up and reformatting.  Will probably change from '98 to xp pro.  Thanks for the limited assistance.

[erjin999]

I wish you limited success  ;)

Joking. Seriously, Good lcuk with that, hope you get it going.

[strider]

Thanks Re-erjin999  ;D  I'm not giving up though.  I have moved my ranting to this thread.

  http://dune2k.com/forum/index.php?topic=17551.0

This person discribed what was happening with my system to a tee.  Hope someone is able to correct his problem.  Than maybe I'll be OK as well. 8)