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Bombax
December 21st, 2013, 04:12
Hey all,

I've recently installed good ol' DKII again from my old disc (not the GOG.com version), and it seems to work great, both after patch 1.7 and after launching it in Windows 2000 / runadmin compatibility mode. No problems at all, and I can run it at 1024x768 with hardware acceleration. This is on my Windows 7 x64 NVidia 570 GTX Intel core i7 machine.

However, after activating the ability to choose 1280x1024 resolution in regedit, and then choosing it in the DKII main menu, the game crashes after I start a level (DKII.icd has stopped working). Obviously running the game in 1024x768 is fine, but I'd really like this higher resolution. Does anyone know of any fixes? Could it be this safedisk thing, is it worth trying - what order of fixes should I try?

Thanks a LOT!
Bombax

Bombax
December 29th, 2013, 12:52
You could try to take the DKII-DX.exe and the patch.dll files out of my mod (if you don't want to use the whole mod), try running the DKII-DX.exe for playing the game instead of DKII.exe; and then you will have a v1.7 game with the GOG changes and can see if GOG fixed your problem for you.

http://keeperklan.com/threads/3417-General-Improvement-Mod-A-New-Unofficial-Patch-for-DK2?p=44983&viewfull=1#post44983

Thanks! Will give it a try.

Chaos.in.Motion
January 20th, 2014, 04:40
would you mind explaining to me how you got the game to 1024X768 resolution? :)