ironman: i usually set my options to not display ship movement. i completely forgot about that setting. but why would 10 milliseconds be a long time? I wouldn't think that would make any difference.
wildcard: i have seen a problem similar to this but it always involved read-only files in the history, empires, and savegame folders. Just to be safe it would be a good idea to take the entire mod folder off of read-only. I dont have 98 so if this isn't the cause perhaps someone else here can come up with a solution.
Re: Eclipse Mod 1.0 Full - Crashing Win98
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