Visual C++ Runtime problem

[wde348]

Greetings:

I just had to replaced a failed video card, and when I tried to launch SOW I got an error message: Visual C++ Runtime Library: Application has requested the Runtime to terminate. Don't know what that means, except that it won't run. I reinstlled the base game and patch 1.4, and get the same error. Any ideas?

Thanks,

[wde348]

Sorry, the error message said "Application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusal way."

Thanks

[Little Powell]

Is it a different video card than your old one? If so, does it have the latest drivers?

[wde348]

Thanks for the reply. It is a bigger card of the same manufacturer (NVidia GeForce 210). I also had trouble with another video applications after the hardware change and reinstallation (registration problems), and found that I could run it as administrator. I tried changing permission settings and several restarts, which (interestingly enough) resulted in SOW working again. I will reinstall Pipe Creek and Antietam next. So, for now, things are ok.

This is a terrific game, one I feel like I have been waiting for since I first received Avalon Hill's Gettyburg about fifty years ago (yes, I'm kinda old!). I look forward to what comes next.

Yours,

[Drummerboy]

Thanks for the reply. It is a bigger card of the same manufacturer (NVidia GeForce 210). I also had trouble with another video applications after the hardware change and reinstallation (registration problems), and found that I could run it as administrator. I tried changing permission settings and several restarts, which (interestingly enough) resulted in SOW working again. I will reinstall Pipe Creek and Antietam next. So, for now, things are ok.

This is a terrific game, one I feel like I have been waiting for since I first received Avalon Hill's Gettyburg about fifty years ago (yes, I'm kinda old!). I look forward to what comes next.

Yours,

You sound like me, I had AH's Gettysburg game way back then, and have played most of the Civil War computer games starting on the Commodore 64 up to now. I had waited a long time for a game of this quality to hit the market. A wait well worth it.