Can't save

[jelbe]

Looked through all the posts here but couldn't find my problem-have XP and reinstalled EBFD-everything seems to work but I can't save a game. Any suggestions appreciated.

[erjin999]

More info, what happens when you try to save a game ?

Did you have any problems when you installed the game ?

Does the game crash, or seem to have saved ok but not load the game when you try ?

More info, anything you think might be relevant. Also, you do have permissions to write to the folder where the game is installed ?

[jelbe]

Re-ergin999;

  Appreciate your promptness-some background-had the game installed on a 98se machine & updated to XP-reformatted the drive as a matter of routine-EBFD installed, loaded and ran without a problem-when I attempted to save, the menu appeared but the (save) button was nonresponsive-that is, clicking on it had no effect. I tried both the skirmish and main game modes but there was no difference (unable to save). Since I can't save, there is nothing to load. Curiouser and curiouser.

  I run a lean machine-nothing running in the background (msconfig the dreck-AVG is activated only when I'm online and I toggle the XP firewall the same way). I'm not sure about the permission but I'm assuming I do-I built the machine and am seen as the administrator by XP.

Thanks,

jelbe

[erjin999]

Thats a freaky one !

The only time I have seen the buttons in emp become unresponsive is when either the firewall blocks the program from acting as a server (zonealarm speak) or accessing the internet (same zonealarm language) and when online the server you are playing on not responding.

basically when you click a button it doesnt respond, but usually the game effectively has crashed, becuase it will only wait for ever, so it hasnt crashed but is in an infinate loop and must be killed. I assume you are able to back out of the save dialogue and all that and carry on should you want to ?

[jelbe]

Re-erjinn999,

  I played a skirmish all the way through-no anomalies other than the one mentioned-I have un/reinstalled also.

jelbe