I spent the afternoon formatting my hard drive, installing a fresh copy of Win2K, installed SP2, loaded my Nvidia 30.82's after uninstalling the 29.XX that came with the CD, loaded DirectX 8.1, installed the sound card drivers, loaded the Microsoft Sidewinder2 drivers, downloaded a fresh copy of AH1114.exe which installed without a hitch and started AH. Again, the game freezes at the splash screen. My hair is all pulled out and my cats are refusing to come anywhere near me, which is actually something good from all of this. Any other ideas guys?