Thanks so much xander:)

This worked:)

Ok I will give that ago, but im not re-encripting the main.dat, and that is what is being replaced.

Instead of going through all this mess, just finish a level after you start it... Is there a real reason why you can't do this? Because I want to be able to go back into levels without having to play them over again and because I am the type of person that just does not like things doing what they ...

http://pastebin.com/K8pV7j0M

I looked but could not see where the Triffid's are in there:(

I opened up Main.dat\data\levels Removed all the Triffid lines in the level files (e.g.) mission_receiver_recapture.txt Triffid 141 2637.95 2766.29 1 0.92 0.39 0 1.00 0.91 212.00 0.22 90.04 1 1248.89 452.94 260.55 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 However, on entering the game the file is returned to how it was before ...

Where are those map files located?

And is this what you ment by Redshirt2? (http://clementcadbury.free.fr/redshirt2/)

(PS Thanks for your helps so far, its appreciated)

Sorry for all the posts, but I have not played since the first post because I did not want to risk making the issue worse, and I really want to play the game, can anyone help please

Anyone have any ideas?

win32-full-steam-1.510

Simular to this persons issue: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/darwinia/viewtopic.php?t=1710 Both Triffids and Anthills respawn on every map that they existed on, im using the steam version (just got it yesterday, its a brilliant game) It's just rather annoying as I went away from my pc to get a dr...