SC Stuck at LOADING

SirWilliam · 06-06-06, 10:00 PM

Hi everyone,

I bought SC a few years ago, tried it one night and thought Hmmm this might be interesting, then promptly lost the CD's.

After a recent move I re-discovered the CD's. I have an older XP machine now running a Radeon 9800XT. I installed the game, searched Google for a patch, and updated it to 1.08. I started the game and it seems to be fine until I select a mission, at which point it just goes to the LOADING screen where nothing happens. In fact 3 out of 5 attempts it locked my machine up and I had to reboot manually. I tried selecting Windows 98/ME compatibility mode for the program but other than stopping the previous "flickering through" effect of the microphone and taskbar graphics, there was no effect and the game seems unplayable.

Any suggestions? I'd really like to try this dinosaur out now that I found it after about 5 years, heh.

-SW

06-06-06, 10:00 PM	#1
SirWilliam Swabbie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	SC Stuck at LOADING Hi everyone, I bought SC a few years ago, tried it one night and thought Hmmm this might be interesting, then promptly lost the CD's. After a recent move I re-discovered the CD's. I have an older XP machine now running a Radeon 9800XT. I installed the game, searched Google for a patch, and updated it to 1.08. I started the game and it seems to be fine until I select a mission, at which point it just goes to the LOADING screen where nothing happens. In fact 3 out of 5 attempts it locked my machine up and I had to reboot manually. I tried selecting Windows 98/ME compatibility mode for the program but other than stopping the previous "flickering through" effect of the microphone and taskbar graphics, there was no effect and the game seems unplayable. Any suggestions? I'd really like to try this dinosaur out now that I found it after about 5 years, heh. -SW