Are you able to run other OpenGL benchmarks? I used to like OpenGL Stars.
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/opengl_stars.html

Skywatcher wrote on 2020-11-10, 16:24:

What can I do to get this game running ? You can't play it on any gamesplatform, so playing the original on original hardware is the only way.

Just because you can't buy it on Steam or whatever doesn't mean you need original hardware. Considering it uses the Quake III engine, I would be very surprised if someone hasn't already persuaded it to at least run under XP. (You'll need some way to bypass the Safedisc on later operating systems, probably.)

ETA: A bit of searching turns up this old thread which isn't very helpful, but it does suggest there might be a patch somewhere? It's not on The Patches Scrolls, alas.

ETA2: Some more info is available at https://www.play-old-pc-games.com/2014/02/09/ … n-mcgees-alice/ .

Works fine for me on modern windows. I use the No CD crack though.

The game shouldn't hang your system, so if it is then that needs to be remediated.

You can also buy Alice Madness returns on Origin which includes the first game.

Thanks guys but I want to have the original game running on original hardware, that's what this forum section is all about right ?

You can no longer buy the complete edition on Origin with the original game included, only the sequel Alice Madness Returns. There is a workaround for it though that works. I found it here. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filede … s/?id=645862676

But again I want to run the original game on period correct hardware, which I have.

Looks like Peixoto may have a patch for this: Peixoto's patches for a few old games
No idea if it would help on an older machine.

Try using period-correct Nvidia drivers such as version 8.05 from 2001.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2020-11-10, 21:11:

Try using period-correct Nvidia drivers such as version 8.05 from 2001.

Thanks, I found the latest drivers for TNT2 cards on nVidia's legacy website, will try those first, but I downloaded the drivers you pointed out too.

I found out that the pervious owner of my PC had installed the drivers for the Diamond Viper V550 and not the V770. I found and installed the correct drivers from Diamond but that did not help. Also installing the TNT2 drivers from nVidia did not help. I am not sure what do to with the nVidia Detonator drivers on Vogons, they are a bunch of dll's and help files but there's no installer or setup exe. The game still hangs the entire system and I need to do a hard reset.

Did you try running OpenGL Stars yet?

It would be very useful to determine if there was a general problem with OpenGL on your system and not a problem with just this specific game, would it not?

Major Geeks said OpenGL Requires Win 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP so that's why I did not try it yet. Went ahead and downloaded and ran Stars anyway.

Benchmark worked fine, got an average FPS of 278 at 800x600 en 573 at 640x480 in the results (although on screen it says 75 and 110 FPS which seem to be more correct).

So it seems it's the game that's having issues. It's the original game from 200o on original Cd-roms with the matching key from the booklet.

I see pcgamingwiki also has a link to a patch for sound drivers. Have you tried those?

Jorpho wrote on 2020-11-11, 18:31:

I see pcgamingwiki also has a link to a patch for sound drivers. Have you tried those?

Thanks but that's a patch for installations on Win 10. The original installer of the game does not copy the audio files to the HDD on Win 10. That's not an issue on Win 98SE. The game is fully installed. I will try and capture the lines the loader shows when starting the game before it freezes, goes by very fast so I have to film it using my smartphone and then take screenshots from that.

I managed to film the loader and from that I found out the game could not execute menu.cfg, config.cfg, localized.cfg and autoexec.cfg because they were missing in the game folder on the HDD. As I had a downloaded copy of the loose files of the game from https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filede … s/?id=645862676 I was able to copy the config.cfg file over to my Win98 PC. The other missing cfg files were not among them. But when I launched the game again with only the config.cfg added it did start up and I could play it just fine. Not sure why the game does not install these cfg files or autogenerate at least the config.cfg though. It is even mentioned in the readme of the game to delete the config.cfg in case you accidently select screen resolutions your PC can't handle and restart the game. But anyway I got it working.

I am pretty sure a buddy of mine ran this on Windows 2000 with gfx acceleration back in the early 2000s without any problems. Can't give you much more information than that, though.

Drivers are here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010416023700/ht … egacy_Graphics2

Or try these:

ftp://retronn.de/driver/Diamond/DIAMOND_VIPER … _WIN_9X_NT4.exe

Are you sure it isnt an Diamond Viper V770 ULTRA card? Then you need other drivers.

here:

and here

http://johndio.com:880/ftp/drivers/Display%20 … ards/V770Ultra/

Robin4 wrote on 2020-11-19, 20:57:

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Drivers are here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010416023700/ht … egacy_Graphics2

Or try these:

ftp://retronn.de/driver/Diamond/DIAMOND_VIPER … _WIN_9X_NT4.exe

Are you sure it isnt an Diamond Viper V770 ULTRA card? Then you need other drivers.

here:

and here

http://johndio.com:880/ftp/drivers/Display%20 … ards/V770Ultra/

Thanks, but it is not a driver issue, but just missing files that for one reason or another are not being copied during install or generated by the game when you start it up. I got it running though. I will look into the driver links you provided although I think it's a normal V770 in got.