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Having issues getting Dungeon Keeper to run on Win98SE

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First post, by tomexplodes

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Having issues getting Dungeon Keeper to run on Win98SE.
Which is super weird, because before I reinstalled Windows for the I-don't-know-how-manyth time, the Direct3D version was working fine. Keeper95.exe never worked. Load screen, crash. Now, even with D3D version, load screen, quick flash of garbled colors, couple black screens, crash. If I try to install the DOS version, it gets to the language menu, but as soon as I move the mouse it hard locks. I've tried both the original DK and DK Gold, neither version lets me play. What gives?

AMD Athlon 1.3ghz
768mb RAM
ATI Radeon 7000 64mb

Last edited by Stiletto on 2020-06-12, 22:22. Edited 1 time in total.

1.) MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium-S 90mhz, 32mb RAM, S3 Trio64, Vibra 16
2.) Windows 98 SE, AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.1ghz, 512mb RAM, Geforce 4 TI 4200 128mb, Sound Blaster Live! Value

Reply 1 of 3, by Jorpho

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You're aware that having that much RAM on a Win9x system is expected to cause problems, right?

Reply 2 of 3, by tomexplodes

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I'll install Unofficial SP3 and get back to you.

EDIT: That sounded way snottier than I intended it to, sorry about that!

1.) MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium-S 90mhz, 32mb RAM, S3 Trio64, Vibra 16
2.) Windows 98 SE, AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.1ghz, 512mb RAM, Geforce 4 TI 4200 128mb, Sound Blaster Live! Value

Reply 3 of 3, by tomexplodes

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That made the D3D version work again, so I'm sure you were right about the RAM issue. Though it seems odd the non-D3D version won't boot.

1.) MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium-S 90mhz, 32mb RAM, S3 Trio64, Vibra 16
2.) Windows 98 SE, AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.1ghz, 512mb RAM, Geforce 4 TI 4200 128mb, Sound Blaster Live! Value

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