M'44 VM's Scenario problems with Vista?

[HirooOnoda]

hey guys!

I'm in a team game with 5 other guys and we're playing one of VM's scenarios for the Campaign game of M'44. There is also one other file that I have downloaded that is supposed to complement VM's updated M'44 campaign game and I did down-load it.

I tried everything to get it to work on my vista machine here in L.A. I can play the game on my XP machine in Santa Fe so I can't help but think it is a Vista problem.

I upgraded the game to 1.02, the latest patch.
I downloaded and unzipped VM's latest work on M'44.
I also downloaded and unzipped the file that everyone else has that complements VM's M'44 file.

I tried over and over, unzipping, downloading, etc.


Nothing worked. I would open the game file and the screen would just be black with one green square visible. If I hit watch replay I'd get an error message (I think it said I was missing a file or something like that).



So I've uninstalled and deleted all the files associated with M'44. I will re-install the game and all the extra files and patches.

The question I have is there some "magic" order by which I need to do this? I install the game exactly how they recomend HPS games should be done with a VISTA machine.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Hiroo

(PS I posted this over in the tech forum but I didn't get a response).