Just giove your user account admin rights. Also, don't forget to patch to version 1.4 then copy back your other pilot files. I'm probably wrong, but I thought that Microsoft suggested using administrator only for - well, administrating. Better not to go online as administrator as lower security. OK ...

You might need to do the configuration as Administrator as well, depending on where D3 is trying to write to in the registry. Ah-ha! Yes, thanks, that gets me past where I was stuck before. However, I seem to have progressed only to some new problems! 1. First tried playing as administrator. This ...

CDN_Merlin wrote:Do you have permissions to install in XP?

Yes, I installed as administrator. The software all seemed to install ok (ie new directory set up and all files transferred over).

Have been running D3 under Win98 for a while but recent upgrade to XP is causing problems. Have reinstalled D3 under XP so now when I go to play, the launcher tells me that I have to set my default detail levels. Fair enough, I go through the set up tabs and set them all, OK them and try to play ...