I've just installed and created my characters, when I click on done (expecting the game to start), it drops to the desktop without any kind of error. I have a Celeron 566 @850mhz, with a ASUS 6800 (latest det. drivers, 5.33), an MX300 soundcard (driver 2048 ), Logitech Mouseman Wheel. I've got it set at 16 bit, no 3d; EAX turned off on the sound card (even tried disabling hardware acceleration). I'm running directX 7.0a. Any help would be appreciated.

Yours is the kindof tech support call that no one wants to take. Basically, there's no clear-cut solution... you just have to test things and hope you nail it down. Here are some ideas:

1) Have you installed the latest patch for IWD? (available at www.interplay.com)
2) Make sure you stop all unnecessary background programs. If you're using Windows 98, MSConfig is a particularly good way to stop them.
3) Try disabling hardware. Disable your soundcard first. I don't know if disabling your video card will do any good, because I don't think IWD will run on Standard VGA drivers (haven't tested this)
4) If you have the hard drive space, try doing a full install of the game. If you've already done this, try running a regular or minimum install instead, just to see if the performance changes any.


Not really much to say beyond that.

Well I got it to work, and I appreciate the response. What I did was figured it had to be video, sound, or directx .. or any combination of the above. So I uninstalled my video and sound card drivers, then reinstalled with another reinstall of directx over the top. Then did a regular install of the game and it runs fine!!