Rock Patch Crash Before Intro

[Loknar]

PaD - I've already spoken to you about this before at SSF, but I thought I'd mention it here just to keep it in view:

-For some reason, classic RA2 works fine on my PC, but YR doesn't. I've patched it, reinstalled it, rung up and emailed EA - nothing helps - the game just stops at the loading screen. Having modified the EXE, I would be grateful if you could offer any insights (better yet fixes) on why this is. My PC's specs are:
---P4 3.0GHz
---GeForce 5900 (latest drivers of course)
---80GB HDD
---52x CD Drive (not dual - I was thinking of other people there)
---Windows XP SP2
---I've tried it before and after SP2 and on every compatibility tool option available too - no luck. Also, using MSConfig to disable all those various startup files didn't help. I haven't tried a hardware profile to disable the GeForce, but I'm going to be really p*ss*d off if I have to restart like that every time I want to switch from YR to Dawn of War

I know you said it was probably hardware-related (any sites you could recommend for this side of things BTW anyone?), but considering how classic RA2 runs fine but YR doesn't, to me it sounds like WW screwed up the code somewhere between RA2 and YR. I'm wondering whether or not a simple copy & paste of the relevant RA2 code would do it (hey I don't know, I'm not a programmer )...