Well, lets see, I have a Windows 7 x64 rig, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 760 with an 2 SSD's. Can run MVP2005 plain vanilla and vanilla fully patched but when I either make a copy of the whole deal and replace the data folder (choosing overwrites) or just leave it where it installed to and copy over the data folder with the game run as Admin and set to Win XP compat. the game will start and get as far as picking jersey's and rosters but when it goes to start the game it crashes when the progress bar gets to about 50 - 75%. Followed your link to the tools, thanks for that by the way. I couldn't seem to find them. :-) Chose Rebuild and it seems to be successful, size of BIG file is somewhat smaller but am still getting same results. Will try another's suggestion about changing the res of Windows itself and see if that helps. Thanks to everyone for the input! I have to do my best to get this working as these may be the only wins my Braves get this season. LOL