Black and White

[valerian]

the boy has just bought a copy of this, installed it
goes to play it, the black and white logo comes up as if its loading, then goes off, no game loads ??????????????????????????

 

[ins0mn1ac]

*looks at vista in your sig*

 

[Darkwave]

Yeah Black & White (if you mean the original) barely works on XP and new hardware in general.

I'd give up now.

 

[Klo]

I major trouble getting it to work on my computer (XP) yet it worked no probs on my dads (also XP). It seems just to be the particular hardware configuration.

 

[valerian]

xp is on the pc in question

 

[MNuTz]

patched it? Drivers up to date?

 

[valerian]

yes, patched makes it worse, ie. not even the start screen

 

[Shamikebab]

I've just been playing this the last couple of days on XP on a rig freakingly similar to yours. To get it runnin gi had to apply the 1.10 patch, theres another patch after that but for some reason the game wouldn't run if i applied that one.

Also weirdly even with this patch it only starts some times, like 1 out of 5, every other time the window appears and i get a message telling me the exe has crashed.

 

[Haggisman]

I seem to remember having to do something like disabling AGP texture acceleration in dxdiag to get B&W working, although this was about 5-6 years ago, so I may be rememberring something for another game XD

 

[C64]

it's probably just a nvidia/ati driver version issue
see if it works on another driver works fine in my sisters xp pro
nforce 2 board with 7600 gs agp.

 

[valerian]

forget it guys, i've skimmed it over the estate

 

[Streeteh]

Rubbish game anyway. Dungeon Keeper 2 is a far better god esque game... mainly because you can only ever be evil.