Getting Dungeon Keeper to work, need help.

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#1 Gamewize
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I recently got a big urge to play some Dungeon Keeper, the problem is I have Windows 7 64bit. No problem, I thought, because I've got Virtual PC that can run Windows XP 32 bit. Everything installed fine and dandy, but when I try to launch the game (either from the provided shortcut or directly from Keeper95.exe) it flashes a black screen and does nothing. I've tried compatability modes, but now I'm out of ideas.

Is there anything that can be done to get this game to run in Virtual PC?

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Hmmm, disabeligng visual themes, and screen svaling, and I think disabeling the desk thing while in 98 compatibitible mode, made it possible for me, but It would usually crash every now and then.

Dont uote me on this, but I think getting dosbox and running the dos executible might work way better tho, it should work that way aswell... without the crashing, and it will likely work better then what I did.

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#3 Gamewize
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Yeah, I've heard about DosBox, and I have it, but I've got no idea how to actually install and run Dungeon Keeper using it.
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oh man its been a while since Ive used it... I can hardly remember the "mount" command...

Last time I used it was with syndicate... I am sure some helpful soul will us with a stick and tell us how :P

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#5 Gamewize
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It'd be nice. I managed to find out how to mount the director and run the .exe, but now, when I try to install, it says it can't copy files correctly.