I don't think I've ever spent this much time trying, unsuccessfully, to get a game to run. (The game being Fahrenheit, aka Indigo Prophecy). Someone once said it's a good game.

It took quite a while to even get it to install under Windows 7, and it seems people have had the same problem under Vista too. After I've found a fix for that, it did install, but didn't run. Patching didn't help.

So I grabbed a copy of XP and installed it in a VirtualBox machine. Turns out the game requires 3D hardware acceleration and VirtualBox' implementation of that is rudimentary at best.

I set up a machine in VMware Player instead, which seems to try to outsource its 3D capabilities to the host machine. It works slightly better than with VirtualBox. But a 3D hardware acceleration test in dxdiag doesn't work properly either. So I've got it to install, and run, but the display is broken enough to not be playable.

I don't think there's anything else I can do.

Tags: games
Current Location: Germany, Lübeck