Hey whats up everybody, i have XP with SP2 and i figured out how to run Black & White with a great frame rate as well as excellent gfx. im running with a celron 1.7ghz overclocked to a 2.5 geforce 4 mx 64mb video and about 512 of ram. I updated to nvidia's latest drivers and used the shortcut in the sys tray to change the image settings to high perfromace and left everything else at the programs will. All the nasty lines caused in the begining and all frezzing ceased to exist. Problem solved.
'Lo all. I joined this forum specifically for a solution to this issue, as it seems that many people are enjoying playing B&W on their XP systems now, the members here seem to be knowledgable, and the thread is still relatively active.
I thank you in advance for your kind assistance.
So here's the problem:
My game system is a refurbished Compaq
900 Mhz Duron (@900mhz)
Uwave2 mobo (aka: FIC AZ-31)
Original system BIOS
512meg SDRAM
GeForce4 440 MX w/AGP8X (64meg DDR on card)
Nvidia driver 6.6.9.3
DirectX version 9.0c
Windows XP Pro (5.1, Build 2600) w/ SP2
The game core runs fine, I have no hangs nor spontanious kick-outs from the game. My problem is in the textures displayed in the game. I can't verbally describe the problem, so I will resort to screenshots to show you what I see. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/legion_o_doom/BWflaw001.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/legion_o_doom/BWflaw002.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/legion_o_doom/BWflaw003.jpg
As you can see, much of the landscape is blurred and blued out. Mountains tend to be transparent when you get too close to them. The ground disappears when close up on it.
As you can imagine, it's rather difficult to rain down terror on unsuspecting foes if I can't properly see my launch ramps...err...mountain ranges. Navigation is also rather difficult.
I have tried compatibility modes for both Win98, and Win2000
I have applied patches 1.1, and 1.2 both sequentially, and exclusively.
I have turned down all the resolution settings, draw distances, and graphics detail levels, to no avail. The flaw occurs under all the various settings.
My particular BIOS does not have advanced settings for the AGP speed, leading me to believe that only AGPX1 is applicable with this system.
Questions?
Comments?
Obscene remarks?
I call to the heavens, please hear me!
Many thanks, o higher powers.
The game core runs fine, I have no hangs nor spontanious kick-outs from the game. My problem is in the textures displayed in the game. I can't verbally describe the problem, so I will resort to screenshots to show you what I see. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/legion_o_doom/BWflaw001.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/legion_o_doom/BWflaw002.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/legion_o_doom/BWflaw003.jpg
As you can see, much of the landscape is blurred and blued out. Mountains tend to be transparent when you get too close to them. The ground disappears when close up on it.
As you can imagine, it's rather difficult to rain down terror on unsuspecting foes if I can't properly see my launch ramps...err...mountain ranges. Navigation is also rather difficult.
I have tried compatibility modes for both Win98, and Win2000
I have applied patches 1.1, and 1.2 both sequentially, and exclusively.
I have turned down all the resolution settings, draw distances, and graphics detail levels, to no avail. The flaw occurs under all the various settings.
My particular BIOS does not have advanced settings for the AGP speed, leading me to believe that only AGPX1 is applicable with this system.
I have the same problem. I have tryed everything. Still no good. If anyone can help, I would be verey grateful. I have always got games running in the past, but this one is winning at the moment. :bawling:
sounds like i've got quite a different prob than most you guys experience....i'm trying to get the game to work on my laptop because i know it's an old school game and i always loved it. my problem is.... after the black and white splash screen loads..... my computer totally crashes (blue screen and everything) and the computer turns off before i can read the error message on the blue screen. i have tried all the B&W patches, compatibility modes of all OS's. i run the diagnostics from the CD and everything checks ok. i'm pretty sure i have at least directx 8 and i have played around with dxdiag.exe to make sure all the sound and video tests work. but nothing i seem to do gets rid of this stupid blue screen message that turns the computer off. any ideas?
system specs (i know it's old but they still meet sys requirements haha)
dell latitude cpxj650
PIII 650MHZ (diagnostics say it is 417 but is still above minimum)
256MB PC133
ATI RAGE 8mb AGP
I was wondering where everyone is getting this patch from..I was sooo excited to find a copy of this game and alas..I realize that it HATES XP, grrrrr...anyways, I tried the 1.30 patch and it is telling me that a file is missing now....PLEASE HELP!
I really just want to play the game..its been 5 years since I have played it...and now that I have my very own copy..i would like to again...without booting up my crappy old 98 system.
I tried 1.3 on my system and it also had a problem - I think the 1.3 patch is only for certain controllers. I reinstalled the game and applied 1.2 and the game works flawlessly.
Ok, I'm not really gifted in computers or whatever so forgive me asking dumb questions if that's what they come off on as.
Firstly I won't to mention that I have apparently the same graphics card that was already mentioned to conflict with running Black and White. I get the same exact graphic problems already mentioned.
First question, what does the hotfix 824141 do and how is it going to affect my system if I uninstall it?
Second, how do I run things in compatibility mode?
İve got
6600GT geforce 128mb
768Mb ddr400 ram
P4 3.0 Hyperthreading
Asus p5 mothercard
but icant play that game i tried to install 1.2 patch but its says LHLlogr.dll cant find what im going to do please help im going to crazy :banghead:
İve got
6600GT geforce 128mb
768Mb ddr400 ram
P4 3.0 Hyperthreading
Asus p5 mothercard
but icant play that game i tried to install 1.2 patch but its says LHLlogr.dll cant find what im going to do please help im going to crazy :banghead:
Boris24 and all :
Had the same problems as some of you with Black and White on Windows XP.
Clicked icon, game would make it to the splash screen, then another window showed with "Options" on the menu bar and "Lionhead" on the title bar.Then it would disappear, and the game never started.
Someone was correct, the Black & White 1.20 patch fixes the problem (although not written to fix that problem) BUT you must be using Windows XP SP1 and the shortcut must be set for Windows 98 Compatibility mode.
If you use Windows XP SP2 as I do... Forget it the game will not run.
Hello, If i try save i have an error "microsoft visual c++ runtime library" "runtime error! program: c:\progra~1\lionhe~1\black&~1\runblack.exe abnormal program termination. Ive tried all the things Ive read in this post except deleteing the hotfix I dont think Ill try that but I have up to date video drivers and directx.
Hi, I just recently pulled the game back out and intalled on my XP system, I've got the same problem as this...When it autosaves or manual save this happens! I have current drivers and patch v1.20. but still to my frustration!
It's really bugging me and would much much appreciate if anybody has remedied this??
I have XP SP2 and do NOT have it set to compatibilty mode and everything works fine, so it might not have anything to do with those things.
Curious Primesuspect ,
Black and White stopped working right after I installed Windows XP SP2. Before that, it worked with XP SP1 with the 1.2 patch applied set in Windows 98 compatibility mode.
I have AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz processor, a Radeon 7000 32Meg AGP video card, and 256 Megs Ram.
OK, I just bought Black and White. I installed it and tried to play but it just started and then Quit out, yes I have xp. I was reading that a way to fix this is to Install Patch 1.2, I quickly Downloaded the patch and tried to install it. I will start to install and then is says "neither command line parameter specified is an existing directory.I click ok and it says that it cant be installed to that area. I tried to install v 1.1 first and it does the same thing but the second pop up says that I dont have the Correct version of Black and White to use this patch... I have tried re-installing multiple times... Suggestions?
OK, I just bought Black and White. I installed it and tried to play but it just started and then Quit out, yes I have xp. I was reading that a way to fix this is to Install Patch 1.2, I quickly Downloaded the patch and tried to install it. I will start to install and then is says "neither command line parameter specified is an existing directory.I click ok and it says that it cant be installed to that area. I tried to install v 1.1 first and it does the same thing but the second pop up says that I dont have the Correct version of Black and White to use this patch... I have tried re-installing multiple times... Suggestions?
OK, I just bought Black and White. I installed it and tried to play but it just started and then Quit out, yes I have xp. I was reading that a way to fix this is to Install Patch 1.2, I quickly Downloaded the patch and tried to install it. I will start to install and then is says "neither command line parameter specified is an existing directory.I click ok and it says that it cant be installed to that area. I tried to install v 1.1 first and it does the same thing but the second pop up says that I dont have the Correct version of Black and White to use this patch... I have tried re-installing multiple times... Suggestions?
I'm having the exact same problem and i can't find the answer anywhere else.
I can get B&W installed and have sound only problem is my graphics look like an old Nintendo Cartridge that needs MAJOR cleaning. I have the 1.2Patch and it's anoying cuase when I had my 1.7Ghz Celeron Chip it ran fine but I upgraded to a 2.0Ghz P4 Northwood w/512k Cache and been having issues since. It makes me mad...if any one can find a Fix I would be verry greatful.
CPU: P4 2.0 Northwood w/512k Cache
Mobo: Asus P4533S-X
RAM: 768MB DDR PC 2700
Video: ATI Radeon 9000 64MB DDR non Pro
O/S: Windows XP SP2
OK, I just bought Black and White. I installed it and tried to play but it just started and then Quit out, yes I have xp. I was reading that a way to fix this is to Install Patch 1.2, I quickly Downloaded the patch and tried to install it. I will start to install and then is says "neither command line parameter specified is an existing directory.I click ok and it says that it cant be installed to that area. I tried to install v 1.1 first and it does the same thing but the second pop up says that I dont have the Correct version of Black and White to use this patch... I have tried re-installing multiple times... Suggestions?
I found the answer. uninstall B&W and then reinstall it in a directory path that has NO spaces.
I've got a new problem. I installed the 1.2 patch, but now when I start, the splash screen is replaced by a small white square, Then ingame, alot of the graphics are corrupted, such as the intro scene with the displacement map and in-game trees etc. Any ideas? I have the latest Nvdia drivers, and have a GeForce 4 ti 4600 and a AMD XP 2500+. :banghead: Please help
I've got a new problem. I installed the 1.2 patch, but now when I start, the splash screen is replaced by a small white square, Then ingame, alot of the graphics are corrupted, such as the intro scene with the displacement map and in-game trees etc. Any ideas? I have the latest Nvdia drivers, and have a GeForce 4 ti 4600 and a AMD XP 2500+. :banghead: Please help
(1) uninstall, defragment
(2) is windows fully patched?
(3) update direct x (i bet your using direct x 8.1)
(4) reinstall
(5) change the compatibility mode of runblack.exe
I've got the same problem. Game starts, but when loading screen apears it shuts down to desktop.
I reinstalled my pc yesterday. Before reïnstall I could play the game, but autosave caused it to crash and I had to use the task manager to close it. I couldn't even go to the second level.
I tried:
- No patch
- Patch 1.10
- Patch 1.20 (1.30 is only for P5 glove edition, whatever that is)
- /NOINETCONN
- Compatibility mode
The following messages appear in the computermanagement logs (don't know what's it called it in English)
Crappy translation from dutch error messages: Description for event-ID (0) cannot be found in source (). The local computer possibly does not have the required register data or Dll-bulletin files to be able to reflect reports of an external computer. You can possibly use the link option /AUXSOURCE = to pick up this description, see Help and Support for details. The following data are part of the event: 7.
What's that /auxsource?
Crashed application: runblack.exe, version 1.0.0.1, crashed module: lhlogr.dll, version 1.0.0.1, crashed on: 0x0000a2f3
See Help and Support on http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp for more information.
This message only appears twice, in about 10 crashes.
I hope it can be solved, was just starting to like the game again.
Edit: Found another message which doesn't appear as an error: Application, C:\Games\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black & White\runblack.exe, has caused an error. The error has occurred on 01-07-2005 on 23:21:08:171. The generated exception is c0000005 on adres 0032A343 (LHLogR!OpenOrCreateRegistryKey)
This lhlogr is the same as the dll referred to in the error message above and the first message also reflects to an registry error.
I have a problamo! :bawling: When i install b&w i select play now. Happy so far. Which is where my problem comes in. :banghead: The window comes on... :celebrate And then flashes off. Plz help! :necro:
i have a problem...
lets cut to the chase whenever i try to play b&w it comes up in a window but all around it it has flashing lines that occasionly go solid but the game gets up to where you have to choose your simbol but when you click the mouse it says there is a problem with RUNBLACK.EXE and closes the game :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
I have a common problem without a common solution: The game crashes after the initial LIONHEAD window with the OPTIONS sub-menu on the menu
bar. I have tried the following (in correct order):
1) Installed V1.1 Patch
2) Installed V1.3 Patch after realising there was unofficial patches
3) Uninstalled V1.3 Patch - must have the P5 Glove for it to run!
4) Installed V1.2 Patch
5) Set to Windows 98 compatibility
6) Installed V1.3 Patch and P5dll.dll - but wait, it claims I have already installed this patch, even though I uninstalled it! Is this because it is
unofficial?
7) The TNT2 drivers have been downgraded, upgraded, regraded, supergraded, subgraded, nanograded, and all together screwed up (causing my
display to revert back to 640x480x4 [16 colour], and as a result, I now use an older driver)...
8) Restarted several times in between stuffing up drivers
I am running a PC with:
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition SP2
- nVidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro graphics card (don't laugh)
I know someone said earlier that if you have SP2, you're screwed. Hopefully this isn't the case.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Hopefully someone is still scanning this thread, as I realise the last post was a couple of weeks back.
Cheers to all who can help,
-- Yoctobyte
But, for some reason, the game now works like a charm, with the exception of a little lag! But I would still be interested on finding out why it works now, so, if anyone knows, I'd be grateful if they would tell!
The moral of the story is don't try to fix a problem after 2am, you'll only end up making it worse... unless you're incredibly lucky like I was today/yesterday
Well, at least I can rest easy now...
-- Yoctobyte
Look, guys, i joined here just for this.
here's my situation, as if you all havent heard this one already.
I just got B&W Deluxe from GameStop with (aparrently, from what i see in the readme) v1.40!
I install it fine, but i notice one thing:
Wheni get to the EAsy Info thing, that tells you your system stats, it shows my processor speed or something as a negative number
i ignored it, andi started installing the game.... la la la... ah, here! It starts CI, but as soon as it starts, it shuts down with the "send Error Report" popup HELP my computer hates me!
EDIT: Wait, what's this P5 glove? i remeber reading about it in a readme.... Yeah, i run a WinXP with SP2, and have a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 6.14.10.4523 driver version (i'm pretty sure there is something better out... 77XX, or something) And i know B&W hates NVidia, but still Um, any other edits for me?...
EDIT: Ok, i went back to 1.2 (turns out i had 1.3, who'd've thunk it?), updated my graphics card, and said a million prayers. :screwed: i got it.... still nothing. same as before
I've also joined the board for this very problem, and it seems a lot of useful help has been given out already.
I have the following system specs:
Athlon 3200+ @ 2.2GHz
ASUS Radeon 9800XT 258MB running Omega 2.5.76 drivers
1GB DDR400 Dual Channel RAM
On-board AC'97 Audio (Gigabyte GA-7N400-L mobo)
DirectX 9.0c
MS IntelliMouse 4.0
My copy of Black & White is fresh installed, then patched to v1.2. It's set to Windows 2000 compatibility, and runs fine - except the game lags while the mouse is moving. I stop the mouse, the game runs fine, till I move it again. My mouse is connected using the normal USB connector, and running the newest IntelliPoint drivers.
Comments
I thank you in advance for your kind assistance.
So here's the problem:
My game system is a refurbished Compaq
900 Mhz Duron (@900mhz)
Uwave2 mobo (aka: FIC AZ-31)
Original system BIOS
512meg SDRAM
GeForce4 440 MX w/AGP8X (64meg DDR on card)
Nvidia driver 6.6.9.3
DirectX version 9.0c
Windows XP Pro (5.1, Build 2600) w/ SP2
The game core runs fine, I have no hangs nor spontanious kick-outs from the game. My problem is in the textures displayed in the game. I can't verbally describe the problem, so I will resort to screenshots to show you what I see.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/legion_o_doom/BWflaw001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/legion_o_doom/BWflaw002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/legion_o_doom/BWflaw003.jpg
As you can see, much of the landscape is blurred and blued out. Mountains tend to be transparent when you get too close to them. The ground disappears when close up on it.
As you can imagine, it's rather difficult to rain down terror on unsuspecting foes if I can't properly see my launch ramps...err...mountain ranges. Navigation is also rather difficult.
I have tried compatibility modes for both Win98, and Win2000
I have applied patches 1.1, and 1.2 both sequentially, and exclusively.
I have turned down all the resolution settings, draw distances, and graphics detail levels, to no avail. The flaw occurs under all the various settings.
My particular BIOS does not have advanced settings for the AGP speed, leading me to believe that only AGPX1 is applicable with this system.
Questions?
Comments?
Obscene remarks?
I call to the heavens, please hear me!
Many thanks, o higher powers.
Compwurx
The demonic God
with an angelic creature
system specs (i know it's old but they still meet sys requirements haha)
dell latitude cpxj650
PIII 650MHZ (diagnostics say it is 417 but is still above minimum)
256MB PC133
ATI RAGE 8mb AGP
thanks guys.
edit: oops i'm running xp sp2
That's pretty bare minimum for this game. You may be out of luck....
Dexter...
I really just want to play the game..its been 5 years since I have played it...and now that I have my very own copy..i would like to again...without booting up my crappy old 98 system.
Firstly I won't to mention that I have apparently the same graphics card that was already mentioned to conflict with running Black and White. I get the same exact graphic problems already mentioned.
First question, what does the hotfix 824141 do and how is it going to affect my system if I uninstall it?
Second, how do I run things in compatibility mode?
Thirdly, how do I run the game with 256 colors?
Any help is appreciated.
6600GT geforce 128mb
768Mb ddr400 ram
P4 3.0 Hyperthreading
Asus p5 mothercard
but icant play that game i tried to install 1.2 patch but its says LHLlogr.dll cant find what im going to do please help im going to crazy :banghead:
Boris24 and all :
Had the same problems as some of you with Black and White on Windows XP.
Clicked icon, game would make it to the splash screen, then another window showed with "Options" on the menu bar and "Lionhead" on the title bar.Then it would disappear, and the game never started.
Someone was correct, the Black & White 1.20 patch fixes the problem (although not written to fix that problem) BUT you must be using Windows XP SP1 and the shortcut must be set for Windows 98 Compatibility mode.
If you use Windows XP SP2 as I do... Forget it the game will not run.
Ronin One
It's really bugging me and would much much appreciate if anybody has remedied this??
Cheers,
Daz.
Curious Primesuspect ,
Black and White stopped working right after I installed Windows XP SP2. Before that, it worked with XP SP1 with the 1.2 patch applied set in Windows 98 compatibility mode.
I have AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz processor, a Radeon 7000 32Meg AGP video card, and 256 Megs Ram.
What are running B&W using?
Ronin One
Where did u get the 1.2 patch from
I'm having the exact same problem and i can't find the answer anywhere else.
CPU: P4 2.0 Northwood w/512k Cache
Mobo: Asus P4533S-X
RAM: 768MB DDR PC 2700
Video: ATI Radeon 9000 64MB DDR non Pro
O/S: Windows XP SP2
I found the answer. uninstall B&W and then reinstall it in a directory path that has NO spaces.
like:
C:\bnw
but not:
C:\Program Files\bnw
patches should then work
(1) uninstall, defragment
(2) is windows fully patched?
(3) update direct x (i bet your using direct x 8.1)
(4) reinstall
(5) change the compatibility mode of runblack.exe
tell me if this works
I reinstalled my pc yesterday. Before reïnstall I could play the game, but autosave caused it to crash and I had to use the task manager to close it. I couldn't even go to the second level.
I tried:
- No patch
- Patch 1.10
- Patch 1.20 (1.30 is only for P5 glove edition, whatever that is)
- /NOINETCONN
- Compatibility mode
Athlon 2500+
1 gb DDR-400
Asus A7N8X Deluxe - NForce 5.10 drivers
GF4 Ti 4200 128 mb - 77.72 drivers
WinXP SP2
The following messages appear in the computermanagement logs (don't know what's it called it in English)
Crappy translation from dutch error messages:
Description for event-ID (0) cannot be found in source (). The local computer possibly does not have the required register data or Dll-bulletin files to be able to reflect reports of an external computer. You can possibly use the link option /AUXSOURCE = to pick up this description, see Help and Support for details. The following data are part of the event: 7.
What's that /auxsource?
Crashed application: runblack.exe, version 1.0.0.1, crashed module: lhlogr.dll, version 1.0.0.1, crashed on: 0x0000a2f3
See Help and Support on http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp for more information.
This message only appears twice, in about 10 crashes.
I hope it can be solved, was just starting to like the game again.
Edit: Found another message which doesn't appear as an error:
Application, C:\Games\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black & White\runblack.exe, has caused an error. The error has occurred on 01-07-2005 on 23:21:08:171. The generated exception is c0000005 on adres 0032A343 (LHLogR!OpenOrCreateRegistryKey)
This lhlogr is the same as the dll referred to in the error message above and the first message also reflects to an registry error.
http://www.forumplanet.com/planetblackandwhite/topic.asp?fid=1678&tid=1238371
lets cut to the chase whenever i try to play b&w it comes up in a window but all around it it has flashing lines that occasionly go solid but the game gets up to where you have to choose your simbol but when you click the mouse it says there is a problem with RUNBLACK.EXE and closes the game :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
But, for some reason, the game now works like a charm, with the exception of a little lag! But I would still be interested on finding out why it works now, so, if anyone knows, I'd be grateful if they would tell!
The moral of the story is don't try to fix a problem after 2am, you'll only end up making it worse... unless you're incredibly lucky like I was today/yesterday
Well, at least I can rest easy now...
-- Yoctobyte
here's my situation, as if you all havent heard this one already.
I just got B&W Deluxe from GameStop with (aparrently, from what i see in the readme) v1.40!
I install it fine, but i notice one thing:
Wheni get to the EAsy Info thing, that tells you your system stats, it shows my processor speed or something as a negative number
i ignored it, andi started installing the game.... la la la... ah, here! It starts CI, but as soon as it starts, it shuts down with the "send Error Report" popup
EDIT: Wait, what's this P5 glove? i remeber reading about it in a readme.... Yeah, i run a WinXP with SP2, and have a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 6.14.10.4523 driver version (i'm pretty sure there is something better out... 77XX, or something) And i know B&W hates NVidia, but still Um, any other edits for me?...
EDIT: Ok, i went back to 1.2 (turns out i had 1.3, who'd've thunk it?), updated my graphics card, and said a million prayers. :screwed: i got it.... still nothing. same as before
I've also joined the board for this very problem, and it seems a lot of useful help has been given out already.
I have the following system specs:
My copy of Black & White is fresh installed, then patched to v1.2. It's set to Windows 2000 compatibility, and runs fine - except the game lags while the mouse is moving. I stop the mouse, the game runs fine, till I move it again. My mouse is connected using the normal USB connector, and running the newest IntelliPoint drivers.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!