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Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista 64
Posted: 2008-09-02 11:04pm
by Stark
I've got some problems playing DK2 on Vista, but I believe it's driver related. Ingame, the screen is blank until something moves, and then that screen area will statically move around if you pan the camera. Apparently, this is due to driver changes made by Nvidia at some time in the distant past (like 58.60 or something). My question would be, is there any way to get around this? DK2 is fucking cool.
Posted: 2008-09-02 11:07pm
by Brother-Captain Gaius
I have similar problem getting DK2 to work reasonably well, but on XP. I do know that nVidia loves to drop old games from their drivers to my extreme annoyance (I'm running some godawfully old video drivers right now so I can run Neverwinter Nights). You can do what I did to play CoD4 and swap fucking drivers every time you want to play one game or the other, but that fucking sucked. I'm not sure what else to tell you, unfortunately.
Posted: 2008-09-02 11:11pm
by Stark
I was able to get it working on XP -and- Vista 32, but I don't clearly remember what I did. I remember that Vista didn't like the SecuROM, so I ad to unpack the encrypted exe and run that directly, but I don't recall this graphics issue.
Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista 64
Posted: 2008-09-02 11:42pm
by Dominus Atheos
Stark wrote:I've got some problems playing DK2 on Vista, but I believe it's driver related. Ingame, the screen is blank until something moves, and then that screen area will statically move around if you pan the camera. Apparently, this is due to driver changes made by Nvidia at some time in the distant past (like 58.60 or something). My question would be, is there any way to get around this? DK2 is fucking cool.
A virtual machine? Load up one of the earlier versions of windows and play it in that.
Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista 64
Posted: 2008-09-03 12:33am
by phongn
Dominus Atheos wrote:A virtual machine? Load up one of the earlier versions of windows and play it in that.
The game requires 3D acceleration, which means using VMWare Workstation (not cheap) and hoping that it works.
Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista 64
Posted: 2008-10-21 05:08pm
by evildespot
Based on this idea, I went ahead and tried this.
The tunneling of direct 3d traffic works flawlessly on workstation 6.5 (but BSOD on 6.0.4).
UNFORTUNATELY, what that means is that it passes all the requests through to Vista, which then screws the whole thing up in exactly the same way.
So you get a nice DK2 in a window under vmware ... with black blocks where your graphics should be.
