Great to find the reason! Dale
>Dale, thank you for your post. >I'm embarassed to report the result - in my defense, I inherited this computer >from a >family member and didn't think to check the specs. But this PC has only 128MB >of RAM. >I've ordered a RAM upgrade - after I install it, I'll give it another go and >report the results >back here. >Jay > > >--- In [email protected], Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Jay, >> >> >Dale, thanks. The game I'm trying to get going is Twilight Struggle. >> >I tried to load the gamebox file in CBDesign, but I got the same >> >error message ("The parameter is incorrect"). I downloaded the >> >gamebox from the Twilight Struggle Consimworld Forum. >> >Lee, I've changed the folder name to myLastName-opponentLastName, to >> >no effect. Thanks for the pointer on saving. I'm not able to open a >> >file in CBPlay to make any moves in yet. >> >I'm able to get open this Twilight Struggle gamefile on my wife's >> >PC, so that suggests the problem is with my PC somehow and not in >> >the gamefile... >> >I just reinstalled WinXP and SP2, re-writing the partition in the >> >process. Still get the error. >> >> Since you completely wiped and reinstalled the entire OS this leaves only >> one other thing: Memory. How much memory does your system have? The TS >> gamebox I use takes about 60MB of RAM. That's not huge but if your system >> only had 256MB (or less) and a small paging file you might get an issue >> loading the gamebox file. >> >> The error you're getting is being generated by MSOft's MFC file load code >> when it has a problem "deserailizing" the file data. (I know the message >> could be improved! :) .) >> >> Prior to lauching the program do a Ctrl-Alt-Delete to get the Window's Task >> Manager program. Select the "Performance" tab and post the numbers you find >> at the bottom of the pane in the mailing list. This may yield some clues. >> >> Dale
