I did try repairing through Origin to no avail. I've not tried renaming the user folder... as it's never changed since day one I didn't see the correlation or need, but I'll try that anyway if the issue persists. I just copied over all the game and document folders to my NAS and am in process of a complete re-download. To those who might read this post, I've been building high end computers for over 20 years now and am very good with hardware and related issues...but this is software, and I ain't, so don't get get embarrassed to ask questions! Do your homework, but then get help if that doesn't work!!! :-) I use games for testing and benchmarking before I sell systems, so game related issues are far more than just a lack of enjoyment for me And thanks for responding Crin.