Win95 game in W7 x64


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While rummaging around for a disc earlier I found my copy of Road Rash 3D and managed to get it to run in W7 RC x64. The only problem is that when the game kicks in, the display goes down to something like 8-colour gfx. The menus and videos play fine, the problem is only ingame. I'm guessing it must be some kind of DirectX issue but I'm just wondering if there's any known fix for this? Like placing a particular dll in the game directory or something like that?

Vid card is a 8800GT with 186.18 drivers.

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windows 95 , windows me , windows 2000 , windows xp , windows vista and then 7 i don't think it will work or should work lol

try running in compatibility mode

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Nah I don't want to play it enough to go emulation. If it won't run it's not the end of the world. I was just wondering if people have had a similar problem with old Win95 games and found a fix. I was happy to get it up and running at all, but then this gfx glitch came and rained on my parade.

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Road Rash is a really exciting game. I think you8 should try to run it in compatibility mode and see if it works. :)
Should have mentioned that I've tried all of the compatibility options. The game will only launch using 95 or 98/ME, nothing higher.
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That sounds like it's worth a shot, but I can't find out how to disable HW acceleration here. The "change settings" box in the Troubleshooting tab is greyed out and there doesn't seem to be a similar option in the NVIDIA control panel...

KSean: It's a Windows game, but I don't want to run it under emulation. It runs "fine" natively apart from this gfx problem.

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I have the same problem running Myst on Windows 7. Strangely enough Riven works fine. (But IIRC Myst uses 8bit, Riven uses 24bit)

If you find out a solution, let me know. I also run the same nVidia driver, and x64 as well. Hmm!

Edit : I can't click the advanced settings in the troubleshoot tab (greyed out), same as you. :(

Edit 2 : There's a new nVidia driver out, haven't tried it, but maybe it'll work?

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