Black and White

[Justin]

I've gotten many an error message in attempts to play
Black and White. I've visited EA Tech Support and they
were unable to help me. I've tried just about any
possible compatability offered by XP with no successful
results.
Recently, my curiosity may have saved me. I checked the
technical data that the error report sends to Microsoft
just because I could. I discovered in it that Black and
White finds the OS of Windows NT on my system. I am
indeed running XP and have never touched NT in any way.
This I am positive is the problem with running B&W on XP.
Now, the reason for this post is that I'd like to know if
there is any way possible to 'hack' or just change B&W to
think that it's running on XP, ME, or 9x. If not, am I
correct in my suspicion through observation that XP
supports multiple OS's on one system? Such as... I could
install my version of Win95 that I have onto... say... my
D drive, reboot my system into 95, and then play my
game...? If I can do this, I'm completely unsure how, and
would apreciate help in doing so.
Thank you very much!
Justin

 

[EGMcCann]

1. Windows XP is "NT 5.1," so you are indeed "running Windows NT."
2. Install. Download latest patch for Black and White. Install patch.
3. If needed, run in compatibility mode after installing the patch.

It will work, but NEEDS the latest patch, on XP.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

B & W definitely does not need to use the Compatibility mode, as long as you
wuse the latest patch.

Y.

 

[Justin]

I've downloaded the latest patch v1.1 and installed it
and it hasn't done a thing as for getting B&W to run.

 

[Cedar]

There is a multiplayer patch. Install this and it will work fine.

Ok for me anyway!

 

[Guest]

Awesomeness! It worked, the game now runs.
BUT! If I click them mouse at all the game minimizes. I
hit alt+tab to get back to the game and it's just a black
screen, I click again and it closes out back to my
original desktop. Compatability issues? I have all those
options turned off right now.
Thanks for your help guys!