[shwaycat]

Well, after two days of trying to get this thing running, I finally figured out a way to at least track down the nature of this particular type of crash, the grey screen of death!

First, go to you MOHAA directory, and find your soldier .cfg file :

C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAAmainconfigs

open it up in word pad and find this line:

seta r_mode "4" (or some number), and change the "4" (or number) to a "2".

Next, create a shortcut to your MOHAA.exe file, and then right click on it to open up the properties. In the target field you should see something like this:

"C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAAMOHAA.exe"

Now add this to the end of that:

+set cl_playintro 0 + set r_fullscreen 1

So now it should look like this:

"C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAAMOHAA.exe" +set cl_playintro 0 + set r_fullscreen 1

Now, crank up your desktop screen resolution to as high as it will go, preferably 1280x1024.

Now run the game in normal mode. The game will launch in s amll window, and you should be able to clearly see the startup console. Also, you should now be able to Ctrl-Alt_del our of the game when it crashes, as before you had to just reset the game.

This was how I found the issue. The last known device the game was trying to initialize, in my case, was the sound card drivers. So I installed older ones, and the thing worked.

I think in general this grey screen issue might be more of a sound card issue. If it were a video card issue, it would let you know generally before it blanks the screen to grey or blue.

Anyway, one way to find out. Hope this helps!!