How do i get Dune2000 to properly work with Windows vista???

[diddy55]

I can install the game ok but when i go to play it, the screen splits. i have tried changing the compatability mode and the resolution and all that but nothing has worked. Can anyone help me????!!!!!

[Quall999]

Are you running Vista 64 bit or 32 bit?

64 bit has issues. From what I gather, it is a 16bit game running in compatibility mode under 32bit, which is then running in compatibility mode under 64 bit. Most people install virtual machines with xp and play it on there.

If it is 32-bit, then what do you mean when you say that the screen splits?

[diddy55]

Its running on a 32-bit. The video inbetween the campaigns works fine, but when i play the camp. and also the main menu kind of shift to the left. The left side of the screen is now appearing on the very right, where as the middle becomes the left side and the was right side is now the middle. Hope that makes sense.

[DABhand]

Jeez Dune2000 is an old title I remember it very well.

And it was a DOS game rather than a Windows game. So I think you need some old DOS emulators that you can get, since the game uses old VGA style graphics I think you will need a UniVBE emulator of sorts.

Here have a look at this its about DOSBOX which should work
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/vista.html

[Aisukage]

There is a way to do so, though you'll have to deal with the offset menu screens, I'm afraid...

I noticed on another site, that someone had brought up the same problem, but had no problems with an 8-Bit game from the same year.

I play Dune 2000 myself, but as they said, Vista doesn't support 16-bit (which sucks). Therefore, switch Dune 2000 to 8-Bit graphics, and you'll be able to play fine. Again, however, you'll still have offset menus, because the graphics setting doesn't affect those. I'd wager that the menu screens are defaulted to 16-Bit. Gonna see if I can't change that... somehow.

[...] Okay... I can't make it happen... but I had a thought. As I said previously, the game can be played as 8-bit... but if someone could make a patch to boost it to 32-bit, or (if unable to run as 32) make the menus run as 8-bit, then you'd have no problems.

[DABhand]

Dune 2000 wasnt 8bit. It was 16bit.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Aisukage is talking about the graphics, not the code.

[DABhand]

Ahhh right...

But its already been said, use DOSbox or Virtual PC which is free from Microsoft, just means you need a Windows 98 or 95 you have to install.

[Aisukage]

I've tried DOSBox, and it failed miserably. I'm saying for those who aren't as computer savvy as others, that if you switch the graphics from 16-bit (which Vista won't support) to 8-bit (which, for some odd reason it does support), you can play the game, though the menus (which are hard-coded as 16-bit, I think) will remain offset.