Don't look at the settings, Ethel!

[Kluelos]

(Ob ref: old Ray Stevens song, "The Streak"")

CotN crashes to the desktop whenever I attempt to change the settings. Doesn't matter what I change, or even if I don't change anything, but exit via the "save" button, it will wait for a few seconds, then crash to desktop with no message. (exit via "cancel" works fine.)

Which means I can't change anything.:(

Tried a repair-reinstall, no help. Hypothetical: bad/corrupt existing settings file needs to be deleted?

(Old dxdiag from me should be tossed, no longer valid. Use this one.)

Edit:
And that hypo looks like a winner: uninstalling the game (and then deleting all the files, howcome uninstall doesn't delete the files? Not just the user files, all of them including directories, remained!), then reinstalling it from scratch, made the problem go away.

Never mind... :p

[Keith]

Update your 3 year old Radeon drivers (http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/winme/radeonwdm-me.html?type=98&prodType=graphic&prod=productsME98driver&submit.x=9&submit.y=10). Make sure you read the "NOTE" on the page addressed to Win98/ME users. They do recommend that 98/Me users use the 4.3 drivers (http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/winme/radeonwdm-me-catalyst43.html), which are the last version that Microsoft has certified. Newer drivers may work bu they are no longer certified by Microsoft because Win98/ME is too old.

Before installing the update make sure you uninstall the previous Catalyst Control Center (if you have that version installed) and/or the ATI Catalyst video driver.
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Ati Radeon driver that I use and have used with CotN from beta testing through now with Win 98SE are dated July 22 2004 wme7-99-98-1-040712a-016504e.