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