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thanks mate. that did the trick. Changed the full-screen option to FALSE in the .xml file and GR loaded fine. I guess that means no full-screen, but I can change the resolution within the game, including to a windowed 1920x1200 (my monitor's natural resolution). yeah, it's odd the options.xml file wasn't loaded with the game, and it definitely wasn't there before. I had searched not just the ghost recon directory, but all of steam's directories before requesting it. GR probably uses internal settings for the initial defaults, then writes them to file when it successfully loads. It jus

thanks for the responses all. will try them all out. Thought I'd be out of luck trying to play an older game. anyway, anyone willing to PM me an options.xml? Or, better yet, post one to a file-sharing site, in case anyone else needs one besides?

Steam had a Ghost Recon package deal over the weekend, so I jumped on it. Tried playing the original GR on my machine (xp/sp3, 2.4ghz c2d, radeon 3850, 4gb ram), but it gave a "ghostrecon.exe has encountered a problem" error and closes to desktop. My Ike.log is below, and searching the forums, I found one person with the same issue, but that was 5 yrs ago and the solution was to revert to DX8 . Steam has an option to "verify integrity" of the game cache, and it checks out. Any ideas? My other non-ghost-recon games on Steam work fine (eg HL2, CS:S, etc). Microsoft support site has