KKnD 2 is a great game but sometimes it irks me off so much when I have bugs in my game or the game crashes halfway. Here are the problems that I often encounter:

1) "Mission Failed" Bug - Sometimes when I'm in the middle of a mission happily thrashing the enemy, the "Mission Failed" box will appear and my game will just freeze. If I happen to save my game not too long before that happens, the thing will repeat itself when I load it back. The only thing I can do is to restart the whole mission or load a game saved quite some time before the problem occured.

2) The game quits halfway - It's quite the same as the previous one, just that this time the game closes instead of showing "Mission Failed".

3) "Unable to create new unit" - The game behaves like when the number of units in the game reaches the maximum allowed, when in fact that is not the case, i.e. when I'm playing a mission the indicator left to the RU display shows a green bar yet I still get the "Unable to create new unit" message and I can't produce more units. Luckily I managed to get past the problem by saving the game and restarting the program.

Also, I'm having the "Requires DirectX v5.0a or higher" problem with my older Windows ME computer. Does anyone know how to fix this on Windows ME? (most cases here are on Windows XP)

I just need to clarify a few things: for all bugs apart from the DirectX, are you using Windows XP, or are you using Windows Me in all these cases?

For the DX problem: the most obvious things I can currently think of are making sure you have the latest drivers for your graphics card and the latest DirectX, and so on.

As for not being able to create a new unit, that does happen when the green population bar is full but not otherwise. You may be able to hack this by opening up "Options.exe" in your KKND2 directory and change the Max Units (and anything else you want to fiddle with).

If you pause the game and minimise it, and/or let your PC go into Standby or Hibernate, then the game can often crash out after a few minutes of resumed gameplay. This has happened to me. If that's the case, just quit KKND2 properly before doing these power actions.

As for 'mission failed' I will assume that you're playing a mission that doesn't involve keeping a certain unit alive... that would be too obvious. Perhaps you should try giving KKND2 a clean install, and failing that, re-installing Windows usually helps

Hope that helps, somewhat.