Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

I downloaded the demo and it wouldn´t start on both of my systems. I get a black screen, then back to desktops. I must admit, that my systems are not exactly High-End, but it should at least run very slow or give an error message. These are the specs:

1:

Pentium III @ 500 MHz
256 MB RAM
Geforce 2 MX 32 MB
Win 98 SE

2:

AMD Duron @ 1.0 GHz
256 MB RAM
32 MB On-Board Graphic
Win 98 SE

I would really like to play the demo and buy the game. If anyone has a solution how I can get it to work I would appreciate it.

Greetings, Homunculus88

Re: Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

I'm not sure if your comp meets the min requirements. Sorry. =(

Re: Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/8.htm

It says
* 256MB Ram, 500 MB disk space
* A good OpenGL accelerated graphics card (geforce or equivalent is recommended).

Win98 should be supported, but I don't know if it was tested under 98.

Graphics card and memory are probably the two biggies.

Re: Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

The Pentium III is under spec.

Re: Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

Well, well, probably I SHOULD buy a new comp. If you can´t play turn-based-strategy games anymore it´s time to upgrade http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif . Thanks for the quick replies.

Re: Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

I have a pIII 700 mhz and demo runs. but it crashes from time to time and cannot use it in windowed mode or use alt+tab (couldn´t with dom2 either).

Re: Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

It should run on both of those. If its a sys requirement thing the program would just run extremely choppy or slow most likely.

Maybe its due to win98. Anyone else run doms on win98?

Re: Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

me

Re: Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

You might try playing with the switches if you know how.

RIght-Click the icon that starts the demo and add switches to the command line to run it in a lesser mode

Re: Demo doesn´t start! What´s wrong??
 

I have a pentium_3(1.0Ghtz) with 512 megs of ram and 16MB graphics card at work.
The demo took a long long time creating the small map with 2 players.