It's not SP2 since I'm running DK2 with SP2 over here. The 1.7 update causes crashes in some cases (like mine) so sometimes you'll have to use the nonupdated ver.

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling DK2?

yes, i have, quite several times now, but still, when i click it, the busy pointer animates then , nothing happens. again. i also tried to make a clean uninstall. i hope what im doing is right : i uninstalled in add remove programs, used regedit to delete any entry with 'dungeon keeper' in it and reinstalled. right?

yeah I didn't think reinstalling would do much but it was worth a shot.

Have you tried a NOCD crack? Try (site that rhymes with blame floppy hurled)

I would suggest trying the different command line options but you can't even get the game loaded so I doubt anything there would be usefull.

Sorry to gravedig, but I saw this topic and thought it was worth asking: If you already have a version of DKII that starts as 1.7 and that is what is causing the problem, then are you just plain screwed or is there anything to do? (Unintenional run-on sentences: OK)

Thanks.

🤣 i have this problem aswell... its very annoying as im sure i can now up the graphics to the extreme in this game... the install freezes the pc till i ctrl-alt-delete and close it...

i noticed the cd continues to spin... so i ran it from a virtual drive and the exact same thing happens... i have also tried the v1.7 patch.

take note... the disc is not screwed due to it works under win9x.

some games i own such as baldur's gate 2 etc. required me to install from the hardisk drive via a simple copy and paste of all the cd's in windows explorer... then install from there... the reason? because i get these weird cd read errors on xp... one of the discs i had to copy to hdd on my other pc and copy it over the network...

i did eventualy get baldurs gate 2 to work... but found it screwed when set to 1600x1200 resoloution... and gave up on the game.