Original black and white

Jon Boy

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Hi I recently purchased afew old classic games for my PC which I never had the money to purchase in my youth and always wanted to try. Anyhow I installed Black and White. But every time I go to play it it loads the starting screen then when the game should start to load it doesnt and goes back to the desktop. Could anyone shed light on this issue please?
 
I also ocasionaly get this error message andthe technical report says this.


I don't know if that means anything to you lot, but wel I wanted to play this game since its release lol and well I want toplayit hehe.
 
can you post a screen shot of your advanced graphics properties for us

right click desktop >> propertes >> settings tab >> click advanced...

try and find the openGL or DirectX tab..thanks
 
Ok I will do and erm the game is brand new. My computer is many years older than the game though and I can play stuff like fear fine so surely I have all the drivers.
EDIT : After looking I dont have those tabs but only these ones;-

Genral, Adapter, Monitor, Troubleshoot, colour management, CATALYST control centre
 
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Anybody? (sorry im bumping this sooo soon but just I made loads of posts on other topics and makes it seem a long time and im off out right now).
 
could just be that the install had some little issues with it, probably would be solved with a reinstallation, I'd say try that and go from there
 
What you need to do is download the v1.2 patch and install it...then set it to windows 98 compatibility. :)
 
atomic said:
What you need to do is download the v1.2 patch and install it...then set it to windows 98 compatibility. :)

Really? I played the game unpatched about a year back on an XP machine.
 
Blue said:
Really? I played the game unpatched about a year back on an XP machine.

Well it seems some machines play it unpatched (for a reason i dont know), however after a bit of digging on google, quite a few places gave that as the answer to this particular problem.
 
atomic said:
Well it seems some machines play it unpatched (for a reason i dont know), however after a bit of digging on google, quite a few places gave that as the answer to this particular problem.

Strange problem that I did not know. I played it on my last PC that I owned of much lesser specs with WinXP Pro also. It's not a pre XP game is it? I did not think it where that old.
 
the min specs are:

PC version:
published by EA games
Minimum Specification:
Windows 95/98/ME/2000,
350mhz processor, 64mb RAM,
600mb Hard Drive Space,
CD or DVD 4x speed drive,
8mb Graphics Card PCI/AGP,
Direct3D 3D accelerator, Direct X 7.0a, Keyboard & Mouse.
 
I have sort of fixed the problem. I downloaded an unofficiaal patch. And it still goes back to deskto but for like 1/10 of a second it flashes up anouther screen and if I manage to click that I can play the game lol.
EDIT: BTW I have the 1.3 patch (unoffitial asI said)
 
I would guess that this is another older program that has been negatively impacted by the wonderful release of SP2 <- dripping with sarcasm. The only other way that I would say to fix it would be to get rid of SP2, if you installed it. (Had a similar problem with a game of mine from about the same period.)
 
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