i think i'm going to uninstall BA2, steam and then reinstall both and the DX9 and try again. maybe tomorrow before the next report.

Sorry, didn't realize you had replied and it had created another page in the discussion. Yes, the screen rez was at 125%. I changed it to 100% and tried to load the game and was able to get all the way into a multiplayer game under my account. I existed and tried to reload the game to try a local/si...

Correct. Before the debug executable, it would show the title screen, start playing music and the progress bar would halt shortly before the end of the line. Then nothing until I killed it. Now, with the debug executable, it goes all the way into the main game screen, but ignores ResX and ResY and I...

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Okay .. the ZIP file contains an error.log, MESSAGES.DAT, OPTIONS.TXT and TUF.INF that were all changed when I ran the debug executable. The attached picture shows that the debug executable didn't respect the requested RexX and ResY and therefore I was unable to select various program commands. pat-...

I'm having trouble following you. You did run the DXSETUP on the computer that's having the problems, right? And it didn't make any difference? Correct. OK - can you please try something for me. Can you take the EXE and the pdb from the below zip and drop them into the install folder for the game (...

Pip, OKay, he's offline and I've tried to start BA2 ... I hit the PLAY button on the launcher, the music starts playing and the loading screen shows up. The progress bar rapidly speeds across the screen until about a 1/2" before the end and stops. Hitting ENTER doesn't do anything. Hitting ESC ...

Pip, Okay, hitting ENTER while the music is playing and the progress bar is sitting there slightly less than complete ... accomplishes nothing. I've just installed DXSETUP from the redist directory under Steam ... unfortunately my friend is currently playing CIV VI on his other computer at home righ...

I'm sorry Pip, I neglected to include the error.log last night. <blush> VER:10004 PLATFORM: WINDOWS CPU String: AuthenticAMD Stepping ID = 1 Model = 8 Family = 15 Extended model = 6 Extended family = 8 CLFLUSH cache line size = 64 APIC Physical ID = 2 CPU Brand String: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon ...

RezX 1920 RezY 1080 Sound 1 Fullscreen 0 I've tried SOUND 1 & 0. No difference. I get the warning that it's going to try to access the internet (pic attached) and then it hangs with the progress bar not quite all the way across (2nd pic attached) (with music if "SOUND 1" or silent if &...

Pip, How do we force the game into Windowed mode or change the Sound settings when we can't get into the game to get to the Options settings? There's no way to access that from the launcher and I don't see anything inside Steam to allow us to set the game to launch in Windowed mode vs Fullscreen. On...

they left their laptop here at my house. i'll try those suggestions after work in a bit.

Thank you!
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Follow up - this was a clean install from a clean STEAM install. No data files copied from his old PC.

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Pip, et al, A friend of mine had BA2 on his old PC but stopped playing it a few years ago after getting some weird errors. He's recently bought a brand new Win11 laptop and thought he'd give it a try again and now he's not even able start the game from the Loader screen (EXCEPTION: 0xC0000005 at add...

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I apparently spoke too soon. I was able to play a couple of turns today, but now I'm getting the old "The server has been unable to validate your details. Please contact the support forums at www.slitherine.com" message.

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Please pass our thanks on the the team Pip, i'm able to get into my multiplayer games this morning.

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I was able to play my turns earlier today but this evening I'm getting this "MISSING_IDS_LOGIN_ERROR-10" error?

ID & password haven't been changed.

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Thank you Pip! I found the following post from you on the Steam BA2 discussion forums ... Check the options.txt file in Documents/My Games/BA2. Are the rezx and rezy values the same values as your screen resolution? Thank you Pip! I was looking for the options.txt file in the wrong place. Updated it...

Good morning Pip and everyone, I've just bought a new laptop which came with Windows 11 Home, it has both a Intel GPU and a NVidia RTX4060 GPU (which is what I have currently set as default). After installing Steam & BA2 and trying to start the game, the launcher opens and I click on the "P...

Thank you kind Pip!

This old game is still so tremendously fun to so many of us. While we really wish Slitherine had kept developing it ... we are REALLY grateful that you are keeping it running for us.

There's just nothing else like it with coop pbem. We LOVE it!

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