Have you checked to see if changing any choices made in the "Setup" menu will make a difference? If you look on the game disk you will find a manual for the game which includes everything from installing and playing to suggestions for fixing problems with the game.

No. Changing resolution in Windows won't effect what resolution the game tries to run at. Try running the config.exe file that is in the game folder. Turn off all the extra effects like shadows. If you absolutely have to, tell it not to use hardware acceleration because that sometimes makes objects disappear. The game may look OK if you disable hardware acceleration and enable True Color. You don't have to turn down the hardware acceleration for all of Windows - just in the game.

Just to let you know Billy Bob that I did have the patch. I happened to be looking in the wrong place. I never looked in this one place but my husband showed me. Duh!!!

Renee63.........

Happens to the best of us! You assured him he "just got lucky", didn't you?

No, he just gave me that look of contempt and I moved on. LOL