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Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista?
DOSBox is a GREAT program, it's basically an emulator that emulates an old
DOS system running with old ISA (dos friendly) sound cards like the SB16 and Gravis UltraSound. If you have old DOS games, more than likely DOSBox can run them. It is an emulator though, so you need a fairly robust system to get good performance out of it, and setup is a little tricky, but once it's working it should run DK. Best thing to do is Google something like "Dungeon Keeper DOSBox How-TO." See what comes up. http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=758&letter=D Been reading notes online since Dungeon Keeper used to be for Pentium it requires a fairly high end system to run in DOSBox. That DEP trick never works Here's a link to the DOSBox tutorial... live it, love it. http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Set...tion_of_DosBox wrote in message ... I tried that windows DEP trick too, didn't work for me either. Now it just does nothing at all. Anyone has some different ideas? I've checked practically every forum there is on this subject and noone seems to have a solution that works for me! It's always 'just change your compatibillity settings', but that also doesn't work. How does DOSbox work? Maybe after all, I'll have to try that... Ana On 14 feb, 21:53, "Andy [YaYa]" wrote: "VRG Scotty" wrote in message ... "VRG Scotty" wrote in message ... It has nothing to do with M$ it is upto the game makers to supply a patch.. But I have Gold running on my Vista machine. Installed as administrator, didn't have to do anything else. Found this on VRG Hi there. Believe it or not, I just finished the entire game again (for the nth time), but this time on Vista! I was having the exact same issues as you, crashing, freezing... then I went into the Windows DEP (Window key+pause - Advanced System Settings - Performace tab, Settings - Data Execution Prevention tab - Add) then add the Keeper95.exe to the list. Then go into the program file Keeper95.exe, right click it and choose compatibility - Windows XP SP2. Now after all this, if I run the game from the shortcut it won't work! You have to go into the program files\bullfrog\keeper\ and run the game by directly clicking on keeper95.exe. Weird, but worked every time! I tried that, didn't help me, I did something else to get the game working, but won't know til I get home tonight. DOSBox is still my recommendation. The game in DOS lacks some things, but it's playable. DK2 runs better, but fans don't seem to like that version as much. -A.- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven - - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven - |
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Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista?
Hi all. I have been trying to get Dungeon Keeper working with Vista for a couple of days. I think I'm onto something but am not really sure what yet so just bare with me... On my desktop (Vista Ultimate x64) I get the problem of DK crashing after the splash screen with a black 640*480 box and no error messages. I installed it in a 98SE virtual machine using VMWare and it runs well except the cursor randowly snaps to edges and renders the game pretty unplayable as selecting anything becomes a very tedious chore. I also installed it on Microsoft Virtual PC and as on Vista it would crash after the splash screen. I was going to install it on an old system running Windows 98SE natively but while doing so decided to try one last thing... I installed DK on my laptop (also running Vista Ultimate x64) and voila it worked! Unfortunately the Direct3d won't work but for some reason it works on there. Now for the weird part... I brought my laptop home from my girlfriend's place and tried playing on my desktop's monitor but got the same error of crash at splash. Puzzled I realised that the only change was the resolution, i turned it back down to the laptop's 1440*900 from 1680*1050 and it worked. Excitedly I tried this on my desktop but unfortunately it did not work Now the only thing I can think of being different between these two machines other than the hardware would be Service Pack 1. However, this problem, as I understand, has been occurring to others since before it was released. If anyone can get it running, what are their system specs? My laptop is: Dell Inspiron 6400 Core 2 Duo processor 2Ghz 2GB RAM NVidia 7300Go 1440*900 resolution Desktop: Gigabyte EX38-DS4 Intel E6600 4GB generic RAM NVidia 8800GTS G92 1680*1050 resolution -- fredskis |
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Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista?
"fredskis" wrote in message ...
Hi all. I have been trying to get Dungeon Keeper working with Vista for a couple of days. I think I'm onto something but am not really sure what yet so just bare with me... On my desktop (Vista Ultimate x64) I get the problem of DK crashing after the splash screen with a black 640*480 box and no error messages. I installed it in a 98SE virtual machine using VMWare and it runs well except the cursor randowly snaps to edges and renders the game pretty unplayable as selecting anything becomes a very tedious chore. I also installed it on Microsoft Virtual PC and as on Vista it would crash after the splash screen. I was going to install it on an old system running Windows 98SE natively but while doing so decided to try one last thing... I installed DK on my laptop (also running Vista Ultimate x64) and voila it worked! Unfortunately the Direct3d won't work but for some reason it works on there. Now for the weird part... I brought my laptop home from my girlfriend's place and tried playing on my desktop's monitor but got the same error of crash at splash. Puzzled I realised that the only change was the resolution, i turned it back down to the laptop's 1440*900 from 1680*1050 and it worked. Excitedly I tried this on my desktop but unfortunately it did not work Now the only thing I can think of being different between these two machines other than the hardware would be Service Pack 1. However, this problem, as I understand, has been occurring to others since before it was released. If anyone can get it running, what are their system specs? My laptop is: Dell Inspiron 6400 Core 2 Duo processor 2Ghz 2GB RAM NVidia 7300Go 1440*900 resolution Desktop: Gigabyte EX38-DS4 Intel E6600 4GB generic RAM NVidia 8800GTS G92 1680*1050 resolution I can't believe so many people still play DK 1. Do you play the Deeper Dungeons expansion? You may be on to something with the resolution, older DirectX games would sometimes have "trouble" changing resolutions in games. The workaround was to set your computer to the same resolution/color depth that the game runs in. So if DK runs in 640x480x256 colors, set your desktop to 640x480x256 (8-bit) color, and try the game again. Oh wait, Vista only goes down to 800x600. Well maybe DK runs in 800x600. DOSBox buddy, a friend to classic games everywhere. -A. |
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Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista?
ok, i have a different problem with vista, cant seem to find many others with this complaint. I've installed the patch, compatible XPsp2, all that stuff... but when i go to open a campain or skirmish or pet dungeon, the game screen is blank. i can pick up imps, if i float my hand over an area it'll tell me if its the dungeon heart or walls or whatever, i can select where to dig, but i cant see a thing! Anyone know what to do? -- alfalfa_89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alfalfa_89's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=50999 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=914190 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista?
actually... there was a problem with that the first time i tried installing it... -- alfalfa_89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alfalfa_89's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=50999 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=914190 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista?
alfalfa_89 wrote in
: ok, i have a different problem with vista, cant seem to find many others with this complaint. I've installed the patch, compatible XPsp2, all that stuff... but when i go to open a campain or skirmish or pet dungeon, the game screen is blank. i can pick up imps, if i float my hand over an area it'll tell me if its the dungeon heart or walls or whatever, i can select where to dig, but i cant see a thing! Anyone know what to do? DK is extremely difficult to get running under Vista. I would suggest setting the compatibility tab to Windows 95. Disable Desktop Composition, and visual themes. Do a little prayer, and try again. I've heard people will run DK in DOS mode with DOSBox. Here's another possiblity, I recall trying this and could not get it to work, but your milage may vary... (-quote-) I went into the Windows DEP (Window key+pause - Advanced System Settings - Performace tab, Settings - Data Execution Prevention tab - Add) then add the Keeper95.exe to the list. Then go into the program file Keeper95.exe, right click it and choose compatibility - Windows XP SP2. Now after all this, if I run the game from the shortcut it won't work! You have to go into the program files\bullfrog\keeper\ and run the game by directly clicking on keeper95.exe. Weird, but worked every time! (-end-quote-) Thanks VRG Scotty. -- -A. |
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Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista?
I've tried that, haver the latest patch and dissabled both those options, game screen is still blank. -- alfalfa_89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alfalfa_89's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=50999 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=914190 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista?
open the game and go to options, graphic options, and disable hardware acceleration. i was having the same issue and this fixed it for me. alfalfa_89;736904 Wrote: ok, i have a different problem with vista, cant seem to find many others with this complaint. I've installed the patch, compatible XPsp2, all that stuff... but when i go to open a campain or skirmish or pet dungeon, the game screen is blank. i can pick up imps, if i float my hand over an area it'll tell me if its the dungeon heart or walls or whatever, i can select where to dig, but i cant see a thing! Anyone know what to do? -- alfalfa_89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alfalfa_89's Profile: 'alfalfa_89's profile on TechArena Computer Hardware Support Forums of India' (http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=50999) View this thread: 'Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista? - Windows Vista Games' (http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=914190) 'TechArena Community - Technology and Computer Hardware Support Forums of India' (http://forums.techarena.in) -- tnuts |