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I've just undergone a change of computer and the new one runs Windows XP instead of 2000 which I had before. When I installed EU2 from the disk, version 1.00, I tried it out briefly and as far as I could tell everything looked and ran normally.

Then I downloaded and installed 1.09. Now when I run the game, the interface seems to be normal but several graphics are badly distorted. First, after the game loads, the picture on the main menu (the one that looks like a scene from Hell) is squeezed onto the top half of the screen and the selection menu takes up the bottom half. When I start up a game the map looks OK as far as the shapes and sizes of the provinces. But several things are squashed. Army sprites look like fat dwarves. Capital circles turn into ellipses. And the port icons are scrambled into blocks of white bars.

The game is playable as far as I know -- I can click on armies and provinces as usual in order to do things -- but the picture looks very strange with all these graphic distortions. What should I do?
 
Update: I tried again just now and most of the graphics are better. The opening screen with the main menu looks OK, as do the capital circles and ports. Some of the army sprites look normal, but most of them are squashed. It looks funny to see a normal Ottoman army fighting against a bunch of fat Byzantine midgets -- no wonder they lost the war! :p

What is going on to cause this? :confused:
 
If you tab out while the game is loading, it messes up some graphics calculations (hence the squashing). Did you do this?
 
Alt Tab is not a supported operation.
Also make sure you have the latest graphic driver for your Video card.
And Rename the AVI folder AVI_back.
 
What happened is that at the final loading stage (after the movie), I got an error because my PC has no sound card. So I couldn't do anything until I went to the task manager to stop the error message, after which the game (usually) loads the rest of the way. From what you say this must foul up the graphics. Do I have to get a sound card, or is there some other way out?
 
Not sure if renameing the Music/Sound folders would solve this but worth a try.
Just rename Music to Music_Back
 
Another thing to try might be changing your desktop resolution so that it matches the in game resolution.