Grim Fandango on Windows 2000

[Chatterjee]

Hi,
I recently bought Grim Fandango and wanted to install it on Windows 2000 only to find that it complains about DirectX and won't let me start the game...

Is there a workaround for this or does anybody know where I might find more information on how to get Grim Fandango to work?

The Lucasarts site doesn't have any helpful information. Thanks in advance!

-S

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

see nt compatable

what video card and drivers are you ruinning? win2k comes with dx7.

 

[StanFL]

To get it to work at all you'll need to launch it from the grimfandango.exe located in the lucas arts/grim folder. The auto run launcher will never work because it doesn't recognize DirectX 7 and thinks 6 needs to be installed.

Once you get it running................good luck. It usually crashes back to the desktop within a minute or two when I launch it. A MS gaming guru suggested the following to me but they weren't much help;

>Try running in software mode instead of 3D hardware acceleration (assuming you've got a cpu with some horsepower).

>Disable all running progs before launching.

>Try running at 16 bit color and a lowered screen resolution.

 

[Chatterjee]

Gosh, I can't get this darn thing to work! I mean it jumps right out of the game about two minutes after you start it.


Oh well...

-S

 

[rustbucket]

Same problem for me, I was looking forward to playing it on my win2k laptop but I guess I'll stick to my win9x desktop to play. What a bummer!