HOW-TO: Dungeon Keeper 2 in Vista

tnuts;763697 Wrote:
> hey, i don't know if you've figured it out or not, but i'd been having
> the same problem, and turning off "hardware acceleration" in the game
> options worked for me. hopefully it helps!

You are a knight and a gentleman, and I am indebted to you! Thank you!
That did the trick and now it works! I get to play with maidens and
everything!

Whooo-hooo! Time to spend 2 weeks not speaking to my family!

Peace,
Caliann


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CaliannG

CaliannG;782084 Wrote:
> > tnuts;763697 Wrote:
> > hey, i don't know if you've figured it out or not, but i'd been having
> > the same problem, and turning off "hardware acceleration" in the game
> > options worked for me. hopefully it helps!> >
>
> You are a knight and a gentleman, and I am indebted to you! Thank
> you! That did the trick and now it works! I get to play with maidens
> and everything!
>
> Whooo-hooo! Time to spend 2 weeks not speaking to my family!
>
> Peace,
> Caliann

I have followed all instructions on this fourm and they have helped me
play the game with the latest patch, however I am experincing a lot of
crahses in game, the crashses only occur when I have clicked on a random
item on the tool bar, or I have used a hotkey to open them, anyone have
any ideas how I can fix this?
I know this is an old thread however the infomation contained within
should be helpful to others who can help me fix my problem. I love DK2!


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Bpotter

Hey guys,

This game has been such a classic for me and this forum helped me run
it on my Vista machines. I never could get it to work properly, it
always seemed to crash by clicking the Objectives menu or when the game
got too big.

Anyways, I'm now running Windows 7 (64 bit), and the game works
PERFECTLY for me.
-Run it in Windows 2000 compatibility mode
-Disable Visual Themes
-Disable Desktop composition
-I have everything turned off in game: water translucency, environment
mapping, and hardware acceleration.
--Please note, I had hardware acceleration ON and it seemed to function
just fine. Also you can play with the QSound option if the audio is
funny.

Windows 7 has a downloadable Virtual Machine which can run XP, I tried
this first to run DKII but it didn't run at all for me... so thank
goodness windows 7 runs it fine anyhow.

Good luck everybody! Here's hoping for DKIII.
(Mods please leave this post to help all DKII fans out there)

-Hawkknight88


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Hawkknight88

[deadpool72]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hawkknight88

Hey guys,

This game has been such a classic for me and this forum helped me run
it on my Vista machines. I never could get it to work properly, it
always seemed to crash by clicking the Objectives menu or when the game
got too big.

Anyways, I'm now running Windows 7 (64 bit), and the game works
PERFECTLY for me.
-Run it in Windows 2000 compatibility mode
-Disable Visual Themes
-Disable Desktop composition
-I have everything turned off in game: water translucency, environment
mapping, and hardware acceleration.
--Please note, I had hardware acceleration ON and it seemed to function
just fine. Also you can play with the QSound option if the audio is
funny.

Windows 7 has a downloadable Virtual Machine which can run XP, I tried
this first to run DKII but it didn't run at all for me... so thank
goodness windows 7 runs it fine anyhow.

Good luck everybody! Here's hoping for DKIII.
(Mods please leave this post to help all DKII fans out there)

-Hawkknight88


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Hawkknight88

hey i have done all of that and still have a black screen i dont kno wht to do and i really want to play this game i would try anything for the windows 7