Black & White Help Help Help!

[JessicaB]

Well finally, 5 years after its release Ive finally bought Black & White and I can't get it to work. It tells me on attempting to run the game that its has caused an illegal operation and must shut down contact vendor blah blah blah. I've installed all the patches and reinstalled the game  .

I'm attempting to run it on PC Win 98, as far as I know it has all the recommended system requirements and its still not working. Does anyone have any advice for me?

This is the complete error message:

RUNBLACK caused an invalid page fault in
module DDRAW.DLL at 016f:baad348b.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=016f EIP=baad348b EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0177 ESP=0136fc50 EBP=0136fc50
ECX=89bd5fec DS=0177 ESI=89cd601c FS=6047
EDX=0136fcec ES=0177 EDI=89bd51e0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f6 00 01 50 74 07 e8 32 91 01 00 eb 05 e8 7d 8d
Stack dump:
0136fcc8 baad269b 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 817a6ba4 89bd500c cd82a340 0136fca0 bff7a10e bff7a567 89bd5000 89bd60e0

Thanks guys and girls.

[Roofvogel]

Have you installed the latest DirectX and videocard drivers?

You may also need to install the most recent Windows 98 [critical] updates.

[Computer Hope Admin]

As mentioned above DDRAW.DLL is affiliated with DirectX. Make sure you have the latest DirectX drivers. Because DirectX is also affiliated with your sound and video drivers I also suggest you also try getting updated video and sound drivers.

[JessicaB]

Yeh I did a search for ddraw.dll and found that it was associated with directx. All has been updated and reinstalled with no effect. Think I'm just going to have to give it up as a bad job. Managed to get it to play and install no problems on my bro's laptop, so its not too bad. Ive done quite a few searches online as well and it seems that most people appear to have had problems with this game. When they get past one problem another appears to crop up.

Good game though when you eventually get it to work without glitches, although the controls are a nightmare!

Thanks again everyone for advice.

[Fed]

You could run dxdiag, it might shed some light on the problem.

[lucofearl]

Whoam a windows 98 user!  Congrats for holding out so long!