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I'll be honest, I didn't really lurk through the various posts in the tech support forum. What I did read didn't answer my issue and I'm frustrated. 
First off, my PC spec.
Intel Pentium D (3.0GHz)
2 GB RAM
Vista 32-bit
ATi Radeon X1650 Pro 512 MB (Shader 3)
Now, I load the game fine. The opening video runs fairly smooth. The issues started happening when I hit the menu screen. Flickering from hell starts. Black tears across the screen. So I take away the black outlines and the tears go away, but the flickering continues. I play around with the menus again and the flickering on the main menu stops. When I start a game no icons for the respective HQs are present, just little blue and red squares on the map (I do have the game set to icons only) and when I fly my candidate from one state to another. It looks like a kaleidoscope of black white and blue.
Help. I loved PM04 and I'm itching to play PM08.
EDIT: Ultimately, the characters never show up in the game for me. At the selection screen or on the map.
EDIT: I believe the flashing I'm seeing is actually the characters... I noticed this while clicking on Lord Kona in the select screen. The colors flashing were the colors of the character itself.
First off, my PC spec.
Intel Pentium D (3.0GHz)
2 GB RAM
Vista 32-bit
ATi Radeon X1650 Pro 512 MB (Shader 3)
Now, I load the game fine. The opening video runs fairly smooth. The issues started happening when I hit the menu screen. Flickering from hell starts. Black tears across the screen. So I take away the black outlines and the tears go away, but the flickering continues. I play around with the menus again and the flickering on the main menu stops. When I start a game no icons for the respective HQs are present, just little blue and red squares on the map (I do have the game set to icons only) and when I fly my candidate from one state to another. It looks like a kaleidoscope of black white and blue.
Help. I loved PM04 and I'm itching to play PM08.
EDIT: Ultimately, the characters never show up in the game for me. At the selection screen or on the map.
EDIT: I believe the flashing I'm seeing is actually the characters... I noticed this while clicking on Lord Kona in the select screen. The colors flashing were the colors of the character itself.
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