The moment you've all been dreading: no, not "Gilbert Gottfried elected President". It's another case of, "I've got Windows XP and something is wrong, help!"

I've been through all the usual hoops. I've installed the game in Win95 compatibility mode. I'm patched up to .42c. I've run the game in both 95 and 98/ME compatibility mode as well as the normal XP mode. Same problem in all versions of the game irregardless of what I do or what I don't do. DXDIAG shows no problems under any tabs.

A bit about my system: I'm running Windows XP Service Pack 2 with all the updates including DirectX v9.0c, with an ATI Radeon 9800 128M video card and a Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum sound card. I've 1G of Ram, with a 120G ATA-133 hard drive and an Intel Pentrium4 3.0G processor w/ Hyper Threading. How's that for a pickup line?

The problem I am having? MAJOR video issues. The television at the beginning is blank, though I can heard the late Mr. Adams speaking quite clearly. The game runs fine otherwise until I put the TITANIC disc into the PC. Then the screen goes black and the sound of the ship crashing into my house can be heard, followed by Fencible(sp?) arriving, chatting, inviting me to come with him, etc.

The screen remains black unless I shell out of the game and then back in, at which point I can see everything, including the bot who is talking to me and moving along. Such as it is, the game carried on from there, but occasionally certain actions I will take will blank the screen and I will have to (again) shell out (via alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del) and then back in order to see what is going on. I wonder if this is how the game is supposed to behave...

Bertie Wooster: Is that right?
Tuppy Glossop: OF COURSE IT'S NOT RIGHT!!!

So my question is twofold. First, has anyone ever encountered a problem like this. If so, how does one fix it? I have exhausted my own computer expertise and searches of the internet and these very boards have turned up nothing helpful.

Please advise.

I had ST working fine under XP until I installed Service Pack 2. Then I experienced similar video problems to yours.
I uninstalled SP2, and all was well again!

Thanks!

I uninstalled SP2 and SST began working perfectly!