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Brandanus · 11-12-2001, 01:21 PM

Hi,

thanks for the repost. Although I must admit it's
too much to read though quickly...

AFAIR, the W2K-AVI-bug made it impossible to enter
_any_ building. In my case I can enter all buildings
except Town Hall and Mage Guild. I remember, there
has been something about that, like "only at day"
or so. The topic has been discussed at heuristicpark.com
(the boards don't exist anymore).
I am pretty sure I wasn't able to enter the town hall
when I started the game for the first time, but that's
long time ago (and I remember that Gareth's introduction
ran across the screen blindingly fast, without any voice
output...).

I have some (bad) experience with W2K: the setup didn't run,
(manual setup worked) activating office-functions did freeze
the game, the W2K-AVI-bug and such.
Lacking other hints I should regard your hint and give it
a try.

I played the game first on K6II-350, 96MB, MatroxMill2-AGP(8MB),
ESS1895 Sound and Win98SE. I used DirectX7, later updated
to 8.0.
Now I started over on PIII-850, 256MB, RivaTNT Mobile(32MB)?,
some sound, and WinXP, which includes DirectX8.1 (and that's
a notebook). I'm still investigating, why D3D doesn't work
(dxdiag-tests are running brilliantly), maybe Dx9 fixes
"compatibility bugs" with Dx6.1.

thanks so far,
Brandanus.

11-12-2001, 01:21 PM	#3
Brandanus Elite Waterdeep Guard Join Date: November 12, 2001 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 6	Hi, thanks for the repost. Although I must admit it's too much to read though quickly... AFAIR, the W2K-AVI-bug made it impossible to enter _any_ building. In my case I can enter all buildings except Town Hall and Mage Guild. I remember, there has been something about that, like "only at day" or so. The topic has been discussed at heuristicpark.com (the boards don't exist anymore). I am pretty sure I wasn't able to enter the town hall when I started the game for the first time, but that's long time ago (and I remember that Gareth's introduction ran across the screen blindingly fast, without any voice output...). I have some (bad) experience with W2K: the setup didn't run, (manual setup worked) activating office-functions did freeze the game, the W2K-AVI-bug and such. Lacking other hints I should regard your hint and give it a try. I played the game first on K6II-350, 96MB, MatroxMill2-AGP(8MB), ESS1895 Sound and Win98SE. I used DirectX7, later updated to 8.0. Now I started over on PIII-850, 256MB, RivaTNT Mobile(32MB)?, some sound, and WinXP, which includes DirectX8.1 (and that's a notebook). I'm still investigating, why D3D doesn't work (dxdiag-tests are running brilliantly), maybe Dx9 fixes "compatibility bugs" with Dx6.1. thanks so far, Brandanus.