protocol7 Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
master2k27 Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted July 13, 2009 Author Share Posted July 13, 2009 Should have mentioned that I've tried all of the compatibility options. The game will only launch using 95 or 98/ME, nothing higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Antonius Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 VM ware with windows 95 installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted July 13, 2009 Author Share Posted July 13, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funworld Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Road Rash is a really exciting game. I think you8 should try to run it in compatibility mode and see if it works. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srjallan Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I'm not sure but if it's a Dos game you may have some success running it in Dosbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
testman Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunamonkey Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 try the last post on this page https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...amp;p=591179914 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 try the last post on this pagehttps://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...amp;p=591179914 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 (edited) 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? Edited July 17, 2009 by Raa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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