Installed both games and they work. I'm sure the issue was with one of drivers (sorry can't be more specific, I unistalled and reinstalled everything).
I just started playing standoff and hats off to the programers. I think they really caputured the WC feel. One of my biggest things throughout the years of playing WC was not having huge battles (it almost got there with Prophecy). It was always you and your wingman versus the entire Kilrathi...
I believe I resolved the issue. I unistalled Standoff and installed UE by itself. Seems to work fine now. I guess Standoff causes a conflict with UE when they are both installed at the same time. Thanks for the feedback though.
Secret ops works fine. I'm on a P4 2.8 ghz with 512 ram windows XP SP2. I set the game to run in both windows 95 and 98. Trying to run the game in 3d 16 bit with 640*480 res.