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Does anyone play Black & White on Windows 8.1?
« on: Sat, 19 December 2015, 09:37:21 »
My son has Black & White ("1") with Creature Island that he would really like to play on a modern 8.1 machine.

We have tried to install it at least half a dozen times, following various instructions found on the internet including downloading new .dlls, renaming folders without spaces, registry tweaks, updates, etc.

It will sometimes seem to install properly, with or without the expansion pack, but when you try to run it, nothing happens.

Got any ideas?
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Re: Does anyone play Black & White on Windows 8.1?
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 19 December 2015, 18:15:48 »
System requirements seem fairly low - have you considered running it in a virtual machine with an older OS installed?
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Re: Does anyone play Black & White on Windows 8.1?
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 19 December 2015, 19:23:35 »
Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 19 December 2015, 18:15:48
System requirements seem fairly low - have you considered running it in a virtual machine with an older OS installed?

Indeed very low requirements. I played the crap out of that game on my 2003 build with XP. My first suggestion is virtual machine too. If not, maybe pick up a cheap XP machine?
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Re: Does anyone play Black & White on Windows 8.1?
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 19 December 2015, 19:24:34 »
What is this "Windows 8.1" you speak of?? I went from 7 to 10  ;D
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Re: Does anyone play Black & White on Windows 8.1?
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 19 December 2015, 19:29:06 »
VM is definitely going to be the best option.

Quote from: digi on Sat, 19 December 2015, 19:24:34
What is this "Windows 8.1" you speak of?? I went from 7 to 10  ;D

I'm on Win8.1 right now =]
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Re: Does anyone play Black & White on Windows 8.1?
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 20 December 2015, 00:18:30 »
I remember trying to get that game to work in W7 or Vista and never could.  Hope you can figure out a way to get it going.
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Re: Does anyone play Black & White on Windows 8.1?
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 10 January 2016, 10:24:46 »
isnt your son a teenager? He would have to be like 4 when B&W came out.
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Re: Does anyone play Black & White on Windows 8.1?
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 10 January 2016, 10:33:03 »
Quote from: digi on Sat, 19 December 2015, 19:24:34
What is this "Windows 8.1" you speak of?? I went from 7 to 10  ;D
Poor guy...
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