I'm in synch with that. Trouble with ETW though, is that you can get to a place where none of the saves will load, or, if you find one that will, and play a battle through again from that point, you get a CTD immediately after, especially if you are going through an end-of-turn. It becomes impossible to get any of the saves to play through to a point where the game will advance and offer up a new save point. I don't keep more than a handfull of saves (at a gig or so of disk space apiece), so my options quickly become limited. This is obviously turning out to be a bad strategy with ETW! After quite a bit of research, I believe most of the issues commonly being experienced are due to the well-documented large memory space issues. I tried the suggestion by "Mad Boris," to no avail. Also have tried totally minimizing all settings just to see if I could get one of the saves to load up and play. No joy there. I do wonder if there is some corruption issue with the save games. I'm pretty much at the wall now. About the only option, if I want to keep running this software, is to start a new campaign, play it through till the memory problems bring everything to a halt again, and accept that I will never be able see a campaign through to the end. Bummer, since a lot of the research goodies don't become available til near the end game. BTW...I am running: Gigabyte GA-M59SLI, AMD\A64x2-4600,2GB Corsair 6400C4, 9600GT 512MB on Win XP SP3. I shut down all uneccessary processes before running ETW