I apologize in advance for my terrible grammar. Years of manual labor with no time for anything but video games and family have taken their toll on my writing skills.
So with all this talk about a new Dungeon Keeper game being shat out by Electronic Arts and an epic indie sequel on the way in the form of War for the Overworld I (and many others, I'm sure) have taken to trying to play Dungeon Keeper 2 again.
The game, for me, is among my favorite all time games. It's just one of those games I will never stop playing no matter how much time passes by. Those feelings may change a bit depending on how War for the Overworld turns out but I stick to my guns.
Unfortunately I've been unable to play it for some time now and I was hoping, maybe, just maybe, someone on these forums might be able to help out. I keep a server tower in my bedroom with Windows 98 and XP just so I can play this game but I would really like to play it on my main machine. It's a real pain to switch to that clunky, old piece of crap and I'd also like to be able to fraps me up some YouTube footage.
I've managed to get it going on my Windows 7 tower by following this guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wSbluoM_Og however it still crashes fairly frequently for pretty much no reason at all at random. Also, I can't save a game, or it crashes. I can play it with Fraps running but the game crashes as soon as I hit record. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, in the game has a thin box around it. Even things like particles popping out of the dungeon heart and even the monsters themselves. The frame rate drops to about 3-5 fps while I'm in the menu sometimes. The list goes on and on.
If anyone knows anything it would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure I'm not the only person with problems like this and I know I'm certainly not the most knowledgeable.
Every time I reinstall (making sure to delete ALL the files and folders) the new install seems to already have my settings from the previous install. Not sure if that is relevant or not but, there it is.
So with all this talk about a new Dungeon Keeper game being shat out by Electronic Arts and an epic indie sequel on the way in the form of War for the Overworld I (and many others, I'm sure) have taken to trying to play Dungeon Keeper 2 again.
The game, for me, is among my favorite all time games. It's just one of those games I will never stop playing no matter how much time passes by. Those feelings may change a bit depending on how War for the Overworld turns out but I stick to my guns.
Unfortunately I've been unable to play it for some time now and I was hoping, maybe, just maybe, someone on these forums might be able to help out. I keep a server tower in my bedroom with Windows 98 and XP just so I can play this game but I would really like to play it on my main machine. It's a real pain to switch to that clunky, old piece of crap and I'd also like to be able to fraps me up some YouTube footage.
I've managed to get it going on my Windows 7 tower by following this guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wSbluoM_Og however it still crashes fairly frequently for pretty much no reason at all at random. Also, I can't save a game, or it crashes. I can play it with Fraps running but the game crashes as soon as I hit record. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, in the game has a thin box around it. Even things like particles popping out of the dungeon heart and even the monsters themselves. The frame rate drops to about 3-5 fps while I'm in the menu sometimes. The list goes on and on.
If anyone knows anything it would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure I'm not the only person with problems like this and I know I'm certainly not the most knowledgeable.
Every time I reinstall (making sure to delete ALL the files and folders) the new install seems to already have my settings from the previous install. Not sure if that is relevant or not but, there it is.