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Hebi

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12/21/2013 | |
Hello everyone !
It's been ages since I've posted anything on creatures caves, I am so sorry for that, to be honest I had a few classes to attend to and was pretty busy.
Anyway, I've installed Virtualbox with a legal version of Windows XP yesterday and tried to install The Albian Years. Creatures 1 works perfectly, Creatures 2 is still not working. I feel like I'm doomed...
It says something like [DDERR_GENERIC_] - error while loading the sprites. Please make sure Direct X is installed and your computer is set to 16bits mode.
So I've reinstalled Direct X, still not working.
I've read on here that the CD version was not reliable, however I can't buy the game on GoG, any idea?
Thanks!
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 Lollipop Lord
C-Rex
    

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12/21/2013 | |
Have you tried Deji's solution? |
 Lodestar
Doringo
   

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12/21/2013 | |
I fixed mine using a rather mutated version of Deji's solution. Had to experiment for a while. |

Hebi

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12/21/2013 | |
Just tried it, it's almost working... The game tries to load and crashes. :-/
UPDATE: Thanks to Jessica, I've installed the GOG version both on my virtual machine AND on my Windows 8 laptop. Turns out it's still crashing on the virtual machine (but it's a completely different bug caused by ddraw.dll)... and it almost works on Windows 8 (not kidding).
I'll try to fix it for the few hours I have left here at home (I'm spending Christmas with my parents and leaving my laptop behind for a few days). Hope it will work. :-)
Here's a pic of my issue with the game: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BcB-sNmCYAA7ATD.png:large
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Hebi

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12/22/2013 | |
Hi!
I just wanted to say that I found a solution on this thread.
Thanks everyone!
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