[color:"orange"]But it's still bugging me why this automap file problem is so common,[/color]
This isn't a very common problem. The other post you replied to about this was nearly a year old.
[color:"orange"]why there are so many messed up versions of this game.[/color]
Nobody every comes to a technical support forum to say that everything is working fine, so with any software/hardware you are only going to see a list of problems. The posting rate for the technical problems forum is much lower than that for the general or help forums.
Maybe re-install again to make sure the swapped automap files are all back the way they should be (or at least were originally)? Also 'corrupt' files (from CRC errors during install) can be extracted manually, as described in the troubleshooting post. A different optical drive might not have the same problems reading the CD, so you could try a different computer.
Try maxing the quality settings again, and load the previous saves, then (if that works) turn off the mini-map, reduce the quality settings and save.
Thanks for the update. As you found, people are not necessarily specific if they post that they fixed a problem.
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