That's worked. I'm gonna sit and have a good game of it now. Thanks for that.

Now THAT was odd. XP Home: Just as you described, no visible mouse (but it's there...at least on the 1st menus). Tried with three different sets of video drivers and there appears to be no (as you said) patches available. XP Pro: Surprisingly, worked fine. Nothing special was done (no compatibility …

I've installed Project IGI under WinXP, and everything works great except that there's no cursor on the menus. That means I can't redefine the keys (unless someone knows how to without the mouse), and the default keys are useless. As far as I can tell, there's never been a patch for the game, and …

I've managed to install Thief Gold in WinXP using 98 compatability mode, but when I run the game I can't switch on Hardware Sound, which means no surround. I'm using the nforce chipset for my sound card, and Hardware Sound did work in Win98. Does anyone have a fix for this?

I have absolutely no idea why, but using Win2k compatability mode on Jones3D.exe and Indy3D.exe, starting MediaPlayer 7 and Internet Explorer without opening anything and then minimizing them - solved the problem! I've played through the first two "levels" now and everything works. Great tip. That …