goshawkrst 0 Posted August 12, 2004 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!!!! Share this post Link to post
goshawkrst 0 Posted August 13, 2004 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. Share this post Link to post
goshawkrst 0 Posted August 17, 2004 Nowbody knows nothing??? What about the windows 2000 pro? is it working there? Share this post Link to post
reddevil3000 0 Posted September 3, 2004 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 Share this post Link to post
reddevil3000 0 Posted September 3, 2004 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 Share this post Link to post
naaaaaa 0 Posted September 5, 2004 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... Share this post Link to post
ToRnHeArTeD 0 Posted January 20, 2005 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 Share this post Link to post
GoreTher 0 Posted January 27, 2005 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... Share this post Link to post
ToRnHeArTeD 0 Posted September 21, 2005 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!!!! Share this post Link to post
binkw32 0 Posted March 19, 2006 delete all dll files except for binkw32.dll, mss32.dll, and smackw32.dll.Worked for me Share this post Link to post