Well i feel foolish. Turns out it wasn't as simple as switching over to a 64-bit version of Windows 7... the screen-flickering returned eventually so I logically determined it must have something to do with the usual suite of software I installed on my system after installing an OS; sure enough it …

i solved the issue. installing a 64-bit OS makes the game run flawlessly (obviously with the compatibility flag ticked for 95/98) i'm p. sure the problem lies there, there must be some weird, misc. difference between the two versions of win7 and it happens to affect this directdraw game when run …

what i'm gonna try now is hex-editing the game executable and change all the references of the directdraw.dll to the one i've renamed that comes with wine d3d for windows. hope it works.

I've already tried DXGL and dgVoodoo without success (they stop the flickering but one produces a crash when you enter a dungeon and the other makes the dungeon wall textures disappear); windowing programs don't hook the game either (DXwin and d3dWindower)-- I'm starting to think it may have …

thank you for the reply, though.

Damn... that's exactly what I was hoping not to hear :( I already know the game works in a virtualized Win98 but since it's a japanese game the text is displayed incorrectly (even the text translated into English) I know, i know; the answer is the win 98se IME japanese language pack jadeon.exe but …

As the title states I'm fed up with having the RPG game I'm currently busting my butt off translating not work correctly on my Windows 7 machine. I have a 50gb spare drive lying around so... what's my best choice? I'd prefer to stay within Windows but i'm down for anything.

Thanks guys! Good advice all around. I'll ask the software creator about this and see if he responds; meanwhile I'm going to google-fu this application compatibility toolkit. If I understand you correctly you're saying it's POSSIBLE that one of the compatability fixes utilized by Win7 when the game …

The game in question is "Wizardry Empire: Princess of the Ancient", developed by STARFISH in the year 2000. It was the first of the major japanese Wizardry games developed by the japanese after the rights were sold by Sir-Tech. The game itself is only 100mb's in total and I will provide a dropbox …