I am playing Black&White on my one month old Vista laptop and had no major problems with the game until land 5 where my creature would not be cured. I tried patching the game, but after the patch, the game wouldn't start anymore, so I re-installed the game, tried to keep the save files, but that caused my creature to be braindead (unable to remember anything and learn anything) so I started over with no patch.

Then I played to land 4, but it got boring so I wanted to load an earlier land and play on it, but every time I try to load a save it just crashes. I could load saves until about yesterday (12th march) but today it wont work.

The only changes to my computer after that date was installing an xbox360 camera driver that I then uninstalled today, and a regular security update.

Any Idea as to how I can get my game loading saves again?
It's the only game I have installed on my computer, I did modify some lands to have the wood miracle or increased miracles and it worked fine.

BW1 was not inteaded to be played on Vista, in fact when BW1 was being made I don't even think vista was even in a concept phase. BW2 on the other hand was written differently and vista is able to run it. I would try running BW1 in compatability mode in vista, simply right click on the shortcut or .exe that you use to launch the game and go to properties. Next go to the compatability tab and tell the game to run in windows xp mode.

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There are many people who are able to play it on vista, and some who have issues. Most cases I know, the patchs do work but might not show up when the game is loading.

Anyway, compatibility modes might help (it seems to work best with either none or win 98, but do try them all), as well as a fresh new install (try installing 1.2 before first starting the game, too). Maybe you changed some driver, other than the camera? There should be more I'm forgetting. Also, read the sticky trhead about running B&W on XP.

If nothing works and you really really want this to run, you could always try to reinstall windows itself, or make a partition with win 98 or something.

Vista SP1 works well with B&W... No isues at all but you need to install and patch the game after SP1 is installed.
Vista pre SP1 had some issues like no wide screen or wrong version reported at startup.
Current game at start of L5.
On Admin account.
No compatibility mode selected.
Registry tweek to get 1680x1050
All on .. reflections, max detail etc.
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Hope this helps.

im having a similar problem, for 1 i cant get the 1.3 patch to work, and for some reason i can save just fine but when i want to load a game its not there... no picture no nothing. but it keeps track of all time spent and how many saves i have done. but always brings me back to a spot in 1st land. I am also using vista computer to run this game and i have it installed on two different machines to see if any difference. Still same problem on both. Other than that the game runs awsome.

 

Any suggestions?

If you dont have the VR glove for B&W then the 1.3 patch breaks the game.
The only patch to use is v1.2 it includes v1.1 and is all you need to play both SP and MP.
Try running the game from the Admin account as the Administrator.

 

Thanks Gremxula. I have actually opened the load/save problem on another thread. I have discussed with multiple people on it already and still no conclusion, im optomistic still. If you would like to put in any other info plz go here http://community.lionhead.com/forums/thread/3323913.aspx, Its like the 3rd thread above this one. I am still open to any suggestions.