Hello all! I apologize for my long explanation, but the more you know the better the help I get, I believe.
I'm going to start with the basics. I just bought Black and White Deluxe (w/ Creature Isle) because I needed a game for my new laptop, and I remembered how much I love Black and White, so I bought it. I played it for a while and all was peachy keen. I soon found out that my CD had a patch for v1.100 on it, so I patched the game. Then I got curious and found more patches. Anyway, I patched the game all the way up to 1.3, but for some reason, when I patched 1.3, it didn't give me the p5dll.dll, so I had to go download it. Well, after I downloaded it and played with v1.3, the game ran kinda sloppy. I don't know if it was my dll that I downloaded or what, so I decided I would uninstall it and play with the files given to me. So, I uninstalled the game, and deleted the entire Lionhead Studios Ltd folder. Then I reinstalled the game. I figured I would use the patch on the CD because it was given to me. Well, the game ran great for quite a while, up until I had to pick my creature. When the choices came, the tiger was gone. Only the ape and cow were there. I wanted the tiger. Well, I chose the Ape anyway.
I absolutely hate cheating in a game mind you, but I really wanted the tiger and it wasn't there. I remember my brother using a program that allowed you to edit and change your creature.
Well, I found and downloaded this program and only changed my cretaure to the tiger. I did ABSOLUTELY nothing else. This program has NEVER screwed my brother up when he played, but I guess when I get on a game and do something like this it does.
Well, I started the game back up, and yup, I had the tiger. the game played great once more, and I was content. That is, until I saw Nemesis' creature. He was a bear (I assume that is what shows up when one chooses the ape?). Well, he was glitchy. He kept disappearing and reappearing. Especially when he walked. I was able to do the first story scroll with him and take control of the village, but when the time to fight him came, things got STRANGE.
Like I said, I could only see him at some points. So during the fight he disappeared, and when I tried to click on him, i got zoomed in really far and my creature disappeared. So I restarted the game. When it loaded back up, I was zoomed really close to water and unable to move, and the bear was telling me to make a combo attack on him or whatever. So I decided to start a new game. I chose the option to skip all the tutorial bullcrap. So it brought me back to creature select and the tiger was available again! Yay! So I picked the tiger and went through the vortex. The game froze up when Khazar tried to put down the Village Totem, so I closed it and started it back up. It took a few tries, because the game would bring up the black screen with the emblem guys on it, then a white box that said LIONHEAD would appear, and I would get an error message telling me that "lh has stopped working" and that "windows is trying to find a solution to the problem".
It does that quite frequently and when the game does finally load up it is slow as can be.
I am running Windows Vista with service pack 1 (time for an upgrade? lol). I have well over the needed requirements for thne game. WELL over. I have the 64-bit version of the Operating System. I AM running the game with the administrative rights thinggy and I am running it in compatibility for Windows 98/ME.
If there is any other needed info, I will be glad to share it.
Again, I apologize for the the length.
If you actually read this and try to help, I thank you so ver much.