1. I am unable to install w98. I have been told that I cannot install w98 because the memory above 512 MB
prevents me from installing. The only possibility is removing memory chips from the computer so that no more than 512 MB remain in it, installing w98, and putting the chips back.
This corresponds to my experience. The installation starts and runs up to the first restart. Immediately before the restart, the installation says that it is checking the hardware but it checks
nothing (the check lasts a small fraction of a second), it restarts the computer and starts
from scratch. The Czechs have a funny song that is sung in circles again and again, until all singers get unconscious
- and the installation behaves exactly like the song. You can install until the hell freezes. The problem can be solved by leaving no more than 512 MB of memory in the computer.
2. The drivers. I am a militant fanatic/2 so that I don't know which versions of drivers I am using under windows [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] It's the driver that comes with the video card. Because the card is rather new, the driver should not be old. I will check.
3. DirectX. I am using DX7 that comes with the game. I have the best experience with this version of DirectX as far as W&W is considered. Perhaps, the w2000 isn't compatible with it. I don't know.
4. The crashes. I don't think that the game is the only one that is guilty. Example:
I can open almost all chests in the Valeia region, in the Crypt, and in the Serpent Temple. But I cannot open even a single chest west of Ishad N'Ha, in the Shurugeon Temple, in the Mines and in the Prison. The game crashes immediately on
every attempt to pick the lock. I don't think I'll be able to open some chest later in the game. In fact, I've already given up and I am opening all chests by means of the Disarm Traps spell. It works. Now, why is it possible to open chests in Valeia and why is it unpossible to open chests later in the game? We can be sure that the "chest interface" haven't changed. The problem cannot consist in the interface alone.