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ORIGINAL: ogar

Mike,

Assuming you figured out the audiere.dll issue, (never ran into it, myself, so have no ideas on that issue).
Yes, my experience has been that the 3xB (and its "ancestor", the AAA patch) mod look exactly like 3.4.0.202. (See below for a non-3xB look difference.)
The difference with 3xB is the tweak to allow AAA eqp in non-AAA units to participate in anti-air combat, and, a slight change in the likelihood of a defending unit in F status and IL, to retreat after combat... meaning, sometimes they budge and sometimes they do not.

I use shortcuts on my desktop to kick off each .exe in each TOAW directory. The label under my 3xB shortcut reads "Shortcut to Copy of TOAW 3.4 w/ 3xB". It was originally "Shortcut to Copy of TOAW 3.4", and later I used it to upgrade to 3xB. The label under the shortcut to the TOAW directory I use for editing reads "EDITOR Shortcut to TOAW 3.4" and points to a directory labelled "EDITOR The Operational Art of War". The 3xB directory uses some graphic mods from Telumar that changes the backgrounds, buttons, etc. The 3xB directory was where I originally experimented with these, so it still has "The East is Red" look. The standard directory was never changed, and the EDITOR directory is, I think, using the Olive Drab look. But I am so unobservant, that the look/skins/etc would not clue me in to where I am working.

HTH

Good luck with the playtest.

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ORIGINAL: ogar
Assuming you figured out the audiere.dll issue, (never ran into it, myself, so have no ideas on that issue).