MitchellD 0 Posted February 22, 2000 Has ANYONE gotten this damned game to work? EA Support is bunch of fkn idiots.. "oh, it's not designed for windows 2000 , so it's unsupported, fuk you very much." Loads, chokes a little on the copy protection, goes to a black screen (1.30) and drops to the desktop. Or (1.61), loads, and freezes on teh black screen. lame. Share this post Link to post
mickbench 0 Posted February 22, 2000 Yet another case of EA and W2K. Dungeon Keeper 2 WILL not run on W2K. I once thought it may be the SAFE DISC copy routines. But a no CD patch for Version 1.61 just resulted in the game giving me a black screen and going back to the desktop. This happens with most EA/Bullfrog Games I've tried so far. Not even the make compatible util on the CD helped with this one. Sorry..!!! Share this post Link to post
sarahd 0 Posted September 6, 2004 Originally posted by MitchellD: Quote: Loads, chokes a little on the copy protection, goes to a black screen (1.30) and drops to the desktop. Or (1.61), loads, and freezes on teh black screen. lame. EXACT same thing happening to me here. i installed the game ok, played it last night. when i try to play t this morning, it just keeps going backto desktop. grrrr. Share this post Link to post
LPH 0 Posted December 15, 2004 This is how you install Dungeon Keeper 2 under Windows XP SP2: 1. Full install Dungeon Keeper 2. 2. Apply patch 1.7. (if you during installation get an error message saying "Can't run 16-bit Windows Program. Cannot find file..." then go to Start - Run... and type regedit. Make sure the following key is disabled (set to 0): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation=0) 3. Install Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit 3.0 (use Google to find it - it's free from Microsoft). 4. Run the program and create a new database. 5. Click Fix. 6. Name of the program to be fixed: Dungeon Keeper 2 - Name of the vendor for this program: Bullfrog Productions. 7. Program file location: Browse for the location of Dkii.exe in gamedir. 8. Operating System Modes: None - Click Next. 9. Compatibility Fixes: select EmulateSlowCPU - Click Next. 10. Click Finish. 11. Choose File and Install and then exit the program. 12. Create a shortcut for Dkii.exe, choose properties and add -32biteverything in the Target commandline (it should look something like this: "C:\Games\Dungeon Keeper 2\Dkii.exe" -32biteverything). 13. Run the shortcut to start the game. Share this post Link to post