Just re-installed Wizardry 8 on my laptop, which runs Vista Home Basic 32. The games works. Sounds and all. My main issue is that I get weird slowdowns when running the game in DirectX. Like usually movement speeds, animations and such occur about 1/2 as fast as they should (this doesn't affect sounds however). Occasionally the game will briefly speed up back to the normal speed it should be going at, before slowing back down to half speed again. I've tried playing around with various graphic interfaces through the game's setting (when I encountered a similar problem with Unreal Tournament, that fixed it), with only partial success. OpenGL does not cause those slowdowns, but instead my screens has black lines forming a grid of 16 squares which you can understand does get annoying. Beside the lines the game is otherwise fully functional.