Dungeon Keeper Gold (UK version)

[Aotrs Commander 0]

A rather obscure but specific, problem...

 

I have recently dug out my old copy of DK Gold and tried running it. I'm on XP SP2, and following the advice on this site, ran both Keeper and Deeper set as Win 95 compatible. both seem to run without too many problems or crash outs (one possible crash, but that mighthave been Zonealarm's pop-up menu which always seems to screw with games).

 

The issue I do have is that on the level selection menu of Deeper Dungeons, the menu slider does not seem to move at all, or even highlight under the cursor. If I click the scroll arrows, it moves the menu to either the very top or the very bottom (thus missing out about 7 levels).

Similar menus in the options (for graphics and sound) function normally, including highlighting the slider.

 

I have managed a work-around (of sorts) by using the edior to literally rename the later levels as the eariler ones (e.g. I renamed all the level 88 files to level 80) in explorer. this obviously is time consuming and tedious (merely saving the map means of course the rest of the attached level data is wrong).

 

I am running a Radeon X600 grahpics card with 3 gig processor and a gig of ram. I suspect that information to be largely immaterial, but I'll include it as a matter of principle.

 

Does anybody have any ideas?

[DosFreak 2]

I'll see if I can test this out sometime this week but I'm really busy during the day so I probably won't get to it until this weekend.

 

If I do have the same behavior and am unable to fix it then there is always Microsoft Virtual PC/Vmware/Qemu. DK should run fine in those.

[bunting 0]

This problem is not an XP issue. It's probably the speed of Aotrs commander's PC.

 

I'm playing the Deeper Dungeon missions from Dungeon Keeper Gold on Windows 98 SE and have the same problem. My PC specs:

 

Pentium 4 3.8GHz

1024 MB RAM

Powercolor Radeon X850XT 256MB (PCI Express)

Seagate SATA-II 500GB (ST3500641AS)

Gigabyte 8VT880p motherboard

Liteon SHW-160P6S DVD burner

Dual boot with Windows 98 SE and Windows XP SP2

DirectX December 2005

ATI Catalyst drivers: 6.2 (Win98), 6.3 (WinXP)

 

I setup a dual boot system to play all my Windows 98 games at peak performance as well as current XP games. I have no troubles running OpenGL or DirectX on Win98 or XP with my X850XT, although getting Win98 to recognize the (beta) ATI drivers required removing items from the Device Manager and rebooting a few times.

 

(For those intereseted, there's also an issue with VIA's 8237 Southbridge and SATA-II hard disks, but that's a separate issue.)

 

Anyway, back to the Deeper Dungeon's problem: The solution is to slow your computer down.

 

Go to http://www.geocities.com/kulhain/ and download CPUGrabber. This tool can make even my machine a clunker, is very easy to use and is free.

 

Run the Deeper Dungeons. When you want to choose a mission from the level menu, alt-tab out to the desktop and run CPUGrabber (I slide the slider to "94" but you may have to experiment, and click on start). Then go back to Deeper Dungeons. You'll find that the game has slowed down and clicking on the scroll arrows scrolls the list at a viewable rate. Before loading the level, alt-tab back out and stop CPUGrabber, return to the game and click your level.

 

This works for Windows 98SE. I suppose it should also work for XP. Also, this scrolling too fast problem affects all the main menus e.g. changing the keyboard options, loading saved games.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

 

[Aotrs Commander 0]

I'll give it a try, and see what happens.

 

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Also, this scrolling too fast problem affects all the main menus e.g. changing the keyboard options, loading saved games.

 

Oddly, though, on my macgine, all the other menu scrolls function normally; it's only the one on the deeper dungeons menu that's giving me any problems...

[bullseyez 0]

hi