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hi all....

Once upon a time, about five months ago, i enthusiasticly install WW.

But my party was killed by a BUG so often that i gave up and unistalled, in disgust!

But i wish to try again, appreciating this game so. Maybe someone here can tell me some helps, first.

I would lock up, have to reset my computer, *sometimes* when i leave the town
after I traded at the shop, at the game beginning. I say "sometimes' as often I can leave the twon and go to the cemetary dungeon and return and leave again with out any problems.
...thus this may NOT be the "codec' problem.

tends to lock up if i do much of any changes to my characters within town, like buy and sell, a hassle as if i do a complicated trade, and lose the game, that trade is gone too, as i can only save out of town!

I have...sigh...dirextx 8.1 on a win98SE system.

I figure that is the culprit!
Maybe, just maybe, i can run the game in software mode.

however...i wonder if there are other tricks that i can try.

win98Se
athlon 1.5
1000megs swap file
356 ram.
lost of hd space.
19" monitor with a 1070 X [?]600 screen at 32 bit color

maybe the resolution is too too high?
maybe i need 600 x 800 at 16bit in hardware.
maybe just 'software" is good.
graphic look so good that i did not want to go downwards!

Is this a dirextx 8.1 issue?
will software cure this directx issue, if i go that route?

or...
is this "merely" an issue with the resolution and color type?

game does not lock up anywhere else.
does not lock on entering the town, only if...say...i go to the shop and buy and sell and then leave the town and not lock up everytime. either, when i sell.
does no crash to desktop: just the mouse curser just hourglassess away forever....

[ i wonder if it is SUPPOSSED TO: mousecurser take, say, four minutes, sometimes, before i leave town?!!]

thanks...freestone