let's be honest it's not playing the game that is my problem now, it's become fixing my vista machine which appears well and truly screwed since the install - unfortunately with nothing appearing in the eventlog I'm really rather stumped unless the software introduced some nasty I cannot find.

I've still not checked the version of the software - ever since install (definitely the only thing installed) I've hand Vista hanging when I exit programs and sometimes just at random - nothing in the event log - something seriously broken.

1280x800 is a normal resolution for widescreen.

I'll have to check what version it actually reports when I get home.

It is a laptop & this would be the first thing to have a problem - I have both some ancient software (Empire in Arms, Empire Earth & new stuff eg Prince of Persia).

Interesting re the graphics drivers as I have tried to raise ...

Military History Commander Total War from amazon.co.uk

Vista Home Premium SP1

Acer 5920G, 4gb RAM, 2Ghz Core 2 Duo, HD3450 integrated graphics, 50Gb free disk space.

I believe it is 1.02 out of the box - I cannot find any updates as it is the Military History version.

I tried Windowed and that just gives me the map on the left hand side of the screen and a black background on the right and when I leave the game my desktop doesn't reappear until I reboot.

I ...

I've justed install on an Acer 5920G laptop running at 1280x800 and repeatedly get a pop up saying DisplayInfo.RB_GetScreenIndex - did not find monitor 0,0,1280,800

Can anyone tell me what the problem is please? Is there a patch out there as makes the game really unpleasant to play.