Re: Mini-Map will not center

"Gene J. Yao" <genejyao@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> I recently bought a new SONY Vaio computer and it came with Age of
> Kings II installed.  I could not play the game, however, because the
> Mini-map erfuses to center on the play area.  Each time I move the
> target box to the play area it moves by itself back to the top of the
> mini-map.  I tried looking for customer sup****t for this game on the
> Microsoft website but they don't have any!!!!  I then when to the
> online forum on Age of Kings on their site and posted about the
> problem.  I also noticed that someone else had psoted about this same
> problem a week earlier.  No response to either post!  What should I
> do?

This sounds like an intermittent problem I had three years ago with Age of
Kings. The screen would at times begin scrolling toward a board edge.
Usually this happened during a battle when I was clicking around all over
the board very quickly. I can't remember now in which direction it
scrolled,
it may have been toward the top. Whenever this would occur I could only
get
it out of this routine if I moved the cursor in the same direction the
screen was scrolling. I know that's counterintuitive, but it worked and I
would regain control. I likened it to steering a car in the direction of a
skid in order to regain control of the car. I never knew the cause. Some
in
this group suspected it was a mouse problem. A few months later I
installed
The Conquerors expansion and I never saw the problem again. So I stopped
researching the cause.

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Michael Ward
Fort Worth, Texas