Hey fella's,
I am a little confused. I am 99% sure I have done everything right, including your suggestions. I completely wiped everything off my disk and reformatted. Booted from CD and installed WinXP on the disk, not partitioned. Loaded latest Nvidea driver for Geforce cards (61.77). Soundblaster drivers are resident in XP, so I didn't bother. Maybe a prob??. I then went to Win Update and sat here for a while and loaded all the critical and recommended updates for XP. I then loaded DirectX 9.0c. Loaded Java (latest JRE). DL and install AH2, full. I then replaced the settings, sounds, terrain, maps, sights, sticks folder with what I had backed up prior to wiping my disk.
Things I didn't do, but not sure whether I need to. DL latest VIA drivers. I am thinking they are already resident on my ASUS A7V8X-X board from previous update. Am I wrong?? Have not disable firewall yet that is complimentary from MS (LOL). How do I?
I still need to load up Zonealarm and anti-virus software.
Thx for replies.