Moorestevensonv

Yeah, Im well aware of the XP driver shortage, but thanfully, litterally ALL my hardware has XP drivers, and all of them are, god forbid, WINDOWS LOGO certified!! LOOKY THERE! I know... a Miracle yes... But thats what happens when your system is almost entirely Creative labs, they tend to keep on the ball.

Allright guys... Got a serious problem here. Im running windows XP on a via apolla 133+ board with a p3 650 and a gef2mx400 with 512 ram and win XP. Everything works fine with the original relase version, but when I upgrade to 1.3 things go okay for a while... But I either lock or upon shutting down... I get a WONDERFUL error message. Windows XP wont start because C:\windows\system32 directory is... Gone... Not there... Disapeared... History... Yeah... Go figure right? It's happend three times... And three times I've had to completely reinstall XP... Yes... Completly... It cant repair it... and system restore wont work because I cant even begin to boot the OS... And making a back up of the directory and copying it does work... Untill I play the game again... And then the back up's gone. I really LOVE this game... But I cant play it on the net because everyone runs 1.3. And Im tired of reinstalling my PC, so If anyone else has had this problem before please tell me... I've NEVER had a game DELETE a windows directory before... But the second and third time's all I did was install XP... update drivers, install OPF, and upgrade to 1.3, play and lock, and weeee.... Directory missing ONCE again... Feel free to email me or reply with ANY advice at all.

Proffesional. And I'm the admin, with admin rights even.

Running corpate version of XP... All autoupdates installed. And No virus software installed on the second and third times... NO Programs other than Win Xp and OFP with patch.