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Old 09-30-2009   #1 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

here is my situation i am runnin vista home premium 32 bit
I bought dungeon keeper 2
I installed the game and the 1.7v patch
I followed the directions to put it into compatiblity mode for windows 2000
The game will start get through the intros and to the main menu

here is when i run into the problem when i click new campaign it will load the hand and the x in the box at the bottom right but you cannot see the map on the screen just black you can here the sounds of when you scroll over where the map should be but no picture i can select the mission and then when it goes in to the game the interface will load but the game is still black no video animations no game nothing also when i try to go to options or pet dungeon from the main screen all it does it lock up in the animation between menus. If you can any help would be appreciated

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Old 09-30-2009   #2 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x64, SP2
 
 

Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

Hello Pierce64,
Can you fill in your system specs or give us a bit more information on your system, thanks.
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Old 09-30-2009   #3 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

Dell Studio 1535
Vista Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5750@2.00Hz 2.00GHz
32 bit operating systems
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Old 10-01-2009   #4 (permalink)


Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

What gpu? I ran Dungeon Keeper fine in Win 98 mode I think. Try that. It still tended to crash once in a while. On a old laptop now running Fedora.
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Old 10-01-2009   #5 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

what is a gpu
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Old 10-01-2009   #6 (permalink)


Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

Your graphics card. Open up the start menu, type dev, press enter, accept UAC and then look for your graphics card in device manager.
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Old 10-01-2009   #7 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

looking at it but not sure what to look for
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Old 10-01-2009   #8 (permalink)


Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

This:
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Old 10-01-2009   #9 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

Maybe ATI MOBILITY Radeon HD 3400 Series
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Old 10-01-2009   #10 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Vista giving me Trouble

yeah that's it
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