Thursday 17 May 2007

old games on xp - hardware acceleration woes

Remember:
Old games (2002 fisher price rescue heroes by knowledge adventure for example) use macromedia director and the projector (basically the whole game) will crash on start up after flashing black screen IFF you turn on full graphics card hardware acceleration!!!!!!!!

Moving it one or two notches to the left fixes it!!!!!!!!

Alternative approach apparently is to install using windows compatibility mode (either NT or 95/98) - I wonder if you can set the runtime to use windows compatibility mode or if it only works on install?

EG: This one fails!!!
fisher price rescue heroes Lava Landslide
Windows 98/ME/2000, Pentium II 266 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 24X CD-ROM, 16-bit color 640X480.

1 comment:

bari72 said...

Thanks DEEPDAN,

I've been searching for solution for this problem for more than 2 weeks. It REALLY WORKS for me!!!