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    Hello folks!

    I have been visiting this forums quite often, as a lurker. I'm not new to DK, in the end of the 90's I played it for the first time. I really love the game.

    Now and then I still play the game. Yesterday I finished the campaign level. I downloaded the three bonus packs and the update to 1.7. Now here's where the trouble comes. I ran all three files, started DK2 as I did yesterday. No problem so far, until I enter the menu and I only see the words. The background is black. Also, when I start up a skirmish level, I only see the "hand of evil"-cursos and I can hear the usual sounds (opening of the dungeon heart and the imps). But once again, the map is black.

    I took the advices given in the troubleshooting forum;
    I tried the UnSafeDisc, but couldn't rename the testme.exe file because it wasn't in the map.
    Also, I checked the checkbox to compatibility-mode Win98. Didn't help either.
    At last, I d/l-ed the 1.8-update. That did not work neither.

    I'm not a tech-guy when it comes to computers. I have Vista running on my PC. Two pictures are included; 1 of the menu and 1 in-game.

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    Can someone help me?

    Thanks!

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    Have you turned hardware acceleration off?

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    Thanks you for your response

    I set the in-game hardware acceleration off. Tried it but still the same, also after starting up the PC.

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    When you set hardware acceleration to off, you must start a game to apply the changes.
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    Thank you!!

    I didn't know I had to start a game first in order to apply the changes. I can't wait to play v1.8.

    Thanks again, I'll keep lurking on this forum. I'll esp. keep an eye on the remake of the 1st DK.

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