In patched version ...mission loads to ~90% and then ......

[JokerMan]

Resigned to bringing my OS upgrade forward or not play COD ....

Disappointing but I guess it's the best advice.

have fun

[5./JG27.Farber]

I had to actually buy a copy also. Its quite a sting at £125... Worse thing was I already had a keycode but it was OEM and all I needed was a disk...

[JG52Uther]

I was lucky Farber, I grabbed a couple of retail versions at the pre order price, think it cost me £90 for both!

[kevinh]

I'm also a Win XP SP3 user and affected by this issue. But I don't see why I should upgrade to Win 7 on the off chance CLOD might start working. If they've patched the game so it's no longer compatible with Win XP then they should do one of three things

1. Fix the patch so it is compatible with XP again.
2. Make the previous version available as an option to XP users.
3. Compensate XP customers who bought CLOD in good faith expecting the game to remain usable on XP.

I paid good money for this game and I don't see why I should be forced to pay a lot more cash for an OS update to continue running it, not to mention all the disruption an OS update would cause to other games and software I run.

Upgrading to Win 7 is not a good solution.

[Sneaksie]

As a side note, Microsoft now offers online upgrade to Windows 8 for $40 (I don't know if this error is related to OS version and would it disappear on Win8 or not).

[JokerMan]

I am thinking this is a memory addressing issue given I seem to get an memory related popup when I tried to run post patch on my XP 32bit OS.

Personally I need to jump to Win7 for other reasons anyway, so my wanting to play il2 COD just brings that decision forward.

Win8 I still an unknown for me to jump on that ship at the moment.

Thanks for the comment though. Hope to back in the virtual air before Xmas.