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Yeah. Me too... But that's still my best guess. I don't know which graphics library they used for it. DirectDraw works fine for me and it is DirectX 7... Not that I could do anything about it [e digicons]O:)[/e] I just really want to try out the game in my own, private, quiet room.
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The demo thing is odd. I hope it will give point someone in the right direction though. I also tried installing the game on a core2duo at work, with an integrated intel graphics driver, and there was no problem. So, almost certainly something with the NVidia drivers... I guess they don't care much for old fashion 2D drawing :)
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Heft: Any chance that you have an NVIDIA card too? My hunch tells me it is something to do with the display drivers. I've tried running it in another computer, which uses an ATI card (x1600 pro), and it worded fine - without the need to use compatibility mode. Since I only changed a display option (256 colors) on my machine, I think it has something to do with it. That other CPU has just a single core, but CariElf said they managed to run the game on a quad-core,
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Mine crashes too, unless I set compatibility mode to run in 256 colors, and even then almost nothing works - i get just the background image (Screen shot attached). I have to exit using alt-f4, and that results in a crash. Setting win98 compatibility mode results in crash. Setting affinity to 1 core only has no effect. Using winXP SP2, and an NVIDIA 8800gt, forceware version 175.16. Intel core2duo E8400 Sure, it's an old game, but so is Starcraft, and I still en
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