Problems in loading shogun

Hiya,
I'm new to this site. i am having problems reloading Shogun. I had to install a new MB and hard drive but kept the same graphics card and have the old drive connected as well. After loading the game the sccreen flickers a bit but at the sart of the tuturial dspite speech no units are displayed. I'm running XP home SP3, Graphics is a Geoforce 8600GT, processor is Intell Pentium III xeon, I have tried uninstalling then reloading but the problem still exists. It worked fine before the crash. one thing after installation I am not asked to enter the serial number? Any help would be well appreciated as I loved playing this game?
Thxs
slowhand

Hi, welcome to the org.

When you say reloading, you mean reinstalling, right ?
From what I know, the Geforce 8600 is known to have problems with Shogun, there's two ways around it: change your graphic card, or switch to "Software device", or hardware, I don't remember in the graphic options of the game.

Were you asked to enter the serials on the first install ?

Anyway, you should post a thread in there or ask a mod (Mithandir I think) to move your post into the Apothecary.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forum...?15-Apothecary

To play battles properly with that card you will need to run in software rendering mode. The downside of this is that it is horribly slow and looks awful to boot.

It's no surprise that the game stopped working after the motherboard upgrade - Windows is notoriously intolerant of such drastic hardware changes.

Uninstalling the graphics card drivers, installing the correct motherboard chipset drivers and then reinstalling the graphics card drivers should resolve this. In future though if changing a motherboard it's advisable to back up your data and prepare to reinstall Windows.

Did you reinstall the game? If so there is no need as you have the other drive installed anyway, just create a shortcut to the executable and run it from the old installation.

Many thxs for advice have posted as suggested

Many thxs did re install windows and all drivers onto the new hard drive.