No, no message. It just hangs with the loading graphic. I wait about 10 mins after the disc reader stops accessing (5 sec of accessing), then I shut it down manually w/ task manager.

I have tried installing in the program files root and separately in c:\
with paste of the dll and deletion of movie files (after 1st failed attempt)
Thanks very much 4 your help.

Dell Latitude 2100 Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz 2 GB RAM 1024x600 (32 bit) 60Hz Windows Vista Business Intel 945 Express Chipset Family I pasted the d3drm dll to the spartan.exe directory and to windows\system 32 directory and installed DX 9.0c. I am running spartan.exe as administrator and in windows xp...