Zerohour

The funny thing is... I have a completely LEGAL copy of Black and White. It is not a copied CD. Original, 100%. EA of course doesn't know what is wrong. I suppose I can try and locate a no-cd crack for it, though that is rather disappointing to have to do on a retail game.

I have a problem running Black and White on my pIII 800mhz, 128mb RAM, 32MB Matrox G400, Windows 2000 machine with all of the latest graphics updates, including DirectX 8.0a, etc... When I launch the game's executable, the splash screen comes up, but then it disappears and returns to the desktop. The game itself does not run. I talked with EA support and they said "We'll call you once EA has resolved the issue", but they first lead me through a SafeDisc patch. I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about this issue, or if anyone has found a solution? Thanks!