Hi all, here's one game I always have extreme difficulty running properly under Windows XP: Terminal Reality's "Nocturne". Every time I set the in-game options to DirectX 7, the main character, Joshua Stranger, as well as 99% of the other NPC's disappear! All I can see is their shadows. I have had limited success with the low end DX5, but only in very low resolutions. (This basically looks like crap, in plain english.) Here's my system specs:

ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard, Phoenix BIOS revision 1010
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ at 2.1~GhZ
1.25GhZ RAM (2x 512, 1x 256) DDR running in single channel mode (board only supports s.c.)
NVidia 7800 GS OC-BFG Tech type with 256MB Vid RAM
94.24 Forceware Drivers, dated April 2007ish
Monitor set to 1024x768, 85hz refresh rate
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, ctaud2k.sys drivers revision 5.12.0001.1196, dated 8/11/2006 -I just update these automatically from Creative's site
DirectX 9.0c 4.09.0000.0904

I've had this game since it came out and was using my old Millenium system. Man, I miss playing this! Thanks for your opinions everyone. 😀 Please let me know if I forgot something.

-John