SOS, HELP, might and magic 8 en windows XP.

[goshawkrst 0]

Hello everyone! I am looking help, to make Might and Magic work in windows Xp pro. What shall I do? The game is installing, everyting it´s fine, but when I try to enter in the game, I receive the well known message with 2 options ¨Tell Microsoft about this problem¨ and ¨Don´t tell¨. I think is not compatible with XP. What shall I do?

Please answer here or send me email on robusergiutuberius@yahoo.com

THANKYOU!!!!

[goshawkrst 0]

Hello again this is the message error I receive when I try to access the game: mm8.exe could not open the dinamyc library KERNEL32.DLL.

and the following: the section ¨MakeCriticalSectionGlobal¨could not be found in the library kernel32.dll.

 

What shall I do? In windows 98, the game from the same cd is working perfectly, but ion xp I receive this erroros.

Please help! Thankyou.

[goshawkrst 0]

Nowbody knows nothing???

What about the windows 2000 pro? is it working there?

[reddevil3000 0]

Hi. There is a solution for MM8 (look here for the complete thread: http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread25973-1.html)

 

Here is the important part:

I found a workaround for Might & Magic 8 that worked on my XP system. Try the following....

 

Start - Run (run a program)

 

regedit (loads the registry editor)

 

Search - "New World Computing" (search for the NWC string)

Make sure the Key found is "My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\New World Computing\Day of the Destroyer\1.0"

 

Change the key "3DSoundAvailable" to be '0'

 

Change the key "Disable3DSound" to be '1'

 

Exit regedit

 

RIGHT click on the icon for MM8 on your desktop

 

Select Properities

 

Under program name, change "mm8setup.exe" to be "mm8.exe"

 

Apply, and quit

 

You're Done, you should now be able to load and play the game, but without 3D sound (you will have standard sound)!

 

 

Greetings

Rainer

[reddevil3000 0]

Maybe you also have to switch off sending error reports to Microsoft. Right click on "My computer", and there must be an option "Send Error Reports" or something like that (Sorry, I have a german version of windows, so I don't know the exactly name).

 

Greetings

Rainer

[naaaaaa 0]

0Originally posted by reddevil3000:

Quote:

Hi. There is a solution for MM8 (look here for the complete thread: http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread25973-1.html)

 

 

This link doesn't work anymore...

[ToRnHeArTeD 0]

For those of you using MM8 on windows ME, this worked for me:

I went to the directX(version 9) folder and went into to the Diagnostic tool. (just do a search for DxDiag and double click. I then went to the "display" settings and disabled the direct draw acceleration...this also disables the direct3d acceleration and the AGP texture acceleration. Then MM8 worked for me. When you try run other games you Must! remember to enable the settings again... This only worked on Windows ME, I tried Xp but didn't work. By all means try for Win 98 and 2000

[GoreTher 0]

I had the same problem and couldn't solve it, so I installed Win 98 and then the game it worked well so I installed a fresh copy of Win XP after erasing Win 98 and then played the game without any problems...but if you are desperat enough you could try to search the registry and cleanup any trace of MM8 and then run setup.exe to configure it again, but i'm not sure since i tried this with MM7 with very limited succes...

[ToRnHeArTeD 0]

I found this download for MM8, I don't know if it works, or really how to make it work. I'm sure one of you computer wiz's can work it out...

 

posted on Gaming Bliss, by roley_lord

http://www.gamingbliss.com/mightandmagic8pc.html

 

Right i've fixed it so listen up. First change it to windows 95 compatibility mode. Now you need to download this no-cd crack. http://www.megagames.com/cracks/html/c32570_0.htm

 

R

ight replace the .exe file with the one in the crack. Now in the config utility of the game, put it under these settings:Full screen, Hardware accelerated, disable accelerated 3D Audio.

 

Make sure you don't have the cd in, and every time you wanna play the game , you have to go through the game config utility first.

 

*Bonus, no cd needed!!!!

 

[binkw32 0]

delete all dll files except for binkw32.dll, mss32.dll, and smackw32.dll.Worked for me