Homeworld 2 Problem

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Santa brought me this excellent space strategy game, but I'm having some problems. Because there were a decent number of people admitting to owning the game (in the Space Games thread) I decided to ask here.

Every time I play Mission #1, I get to a certain point and the game freezes. The music and sound still plays, but the video stops.

I've looked around the Relic sites and forums, and found nothing that addresses this. I've played some skirmishes, so I don't know what the problem is.

If anyone has experianced this with HW2 and has a solution, I would be most grateful.

Alternatively, if someone has an autosave file that gets me past mission 1, I'd take that too...

[Grey_Fox]

Could be a scratch on the disk? Or just slow loading?

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

It appears to be neither: my disk is brand new and flawless, I've waited around for a while to see if anything happens to no avail.

I'm going to try posting on their forums for help.

[Sjakihata]

Make sure that you have the latest patch. Install it on a fresh installation of HW2

[Krypta]

Does the crash occur just after the training exercise?

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

It's not a crash per say. It freezes during the training mission.

And I have version 1.1 (installed patch).