That's not true. I play HOTD on two different XP pc's and have no problems with either one. One of them has a 7950GT 512 mb card running the May 08 drivers. I didn't have any problems using older drivers either. Since I don't have this problem, I really can't help you. But I wanted to make clear …

EA is so big that their big name releases are guaranteed big sales numbers. So they really don't care what their customers want. But I haven't and won't ever buy a game that limits my installations. And there are plenty of other people who feel the same way. Sooner or later this is going to bite EA …

I downloaded and un-zipped the iso's from EA's website. Each iso came with a patch for XP in it's folder. Has anyone tried these patches yet on XP? I really won't have time to install this game until the weekend to find out myself.

Like Colonization which we did awhile ago and which will someday in the far future be on the net. A recent issue of PC Gamer had your "dosboxed" version of Colonization on it's demo disc.