anybody looking for a challenge? cuz i think i've got one...

i recently tried to run the windows version of discworld 2, and at first i thought it was actually going to work! the developer title screens all looked okay, and the sound was great... then the title screen for the game hit, and everything crashed out.

so i decided to try some instructions i found to run the dos version in dosbox, since dosbox worked for me for the first discworld game.

the instructions i used basically boiled down to installing the game to a "dw2" directory on my c:\ drive, patching it with DW2PTCH3, as described in many of the other outlines on this site, adding the programs univbe.exe and vbeplus.exe to the game directory, and then running the game using the following "dw2.bat" file in dosbox:

@echo off
Config -set cpu cycles=22215
mount d i:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
vbeplus.exe
univbe.exe
dwb.exe

(i:\ is the drive the discworld 2 cd is in)

after following all the instructions, the game seems to start, and i can hear the sound perfectly, but there is no image in the dosbox window. as far as i can tell, this should've worked, and seems like it almost does.

i've tried running it using vdmsound as detailed in this post as well:
How to run Discworld II on Windows XP

but even when running vbeplus and univbe, and even turning on vdmsound's basic VESA support, but i'm still getting a message saying that a "Supported video card not detected."

"Call to get VBE mode information failed (34f)
You may be able to correct this by installing a software VBE (VESA BIOS Extension) driver

Failed to find a valid VESA video mode
You may be able to correct this by installing a software VBE (VESA BIOS Extension) driver

Discworld needs a VESA driver for Super VGA.
Please consult the manual."

any ideas, folks? either to get it running in dosbox or vdmsound?

i'm using dosbox version 0.70, most recent, just downloaded today. and if my system matters at all (though i don't see how it would):

CPU - Intel Core2Duo E6600
RAM - 2 GB DDR2 533 MHz
Graphics - ATI X1950Pro 256 MB

thanks in advance!