Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners Subject: Re: help me Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:09:50 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <80hvoj$mir1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <801e6n$cp2@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-96.amantadine.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Just a thought, but how different is the other program for initialising your graphics, etc. Perhaps your main game isn't initialising right, but your stripped down software you load before it is initialising the graphics system ok. Check for dfferences between the two anyway, apart from that not very useful idea I can't offer you much. i just thought you'd like to know your post was at least getting some consideration. Stuart. PS. no idea about the random key thing, I just use f3 and an auto.bat file to load files.