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My absolut favoritegame of all times is the Strategy/Adventure game Black & White, where you play as a god and build villages to impress other villages to join you, or totaly destroys the other villages with fireball miracles works too, if you're evil. Anyway, I always had problems with getting this game to work on other operating systems than Windows XP, I actually got it to work on Windows 7, by editing the resulotion manually to 1920x1080 somewhere in the systemfiles or something, and by playing as administrator you could make the save feature possible. I have lost that guide and I don't even know if it would be the same to make it work on Windows 10. I just wonder if some kind soul out there that don't have anything better to do could take a look on this problem for me. When I start the game on Windows 10 the screen get's black for a few seconds and just stops. No errors or anything pop up. Please help me, I will draw you unicorn eating cake if you do.
Thanks for your post and for the helpful answers in the comments that help narrow my search for the issue. I spent 1-2 hours with the same issue and finally figured out what the problem was: for security reasons, Windows 10 does not allow DRM protected games from modifying system files (see for more information). Given that Black and White was published by EA and released during, I had a hunch it had some sort of DRM on it. Turns out it does - it has, which is NOT supported in Windows 10. To get around this issue you have two options:. The legal, but hard way.
If you have the original Black and White disc, you can allow SafeDisc drivers to run in Windows 10 by installing them and signing them yourself (see third post for details). However, SafeDisc has which is why Microsoft pulled support for it in the first place. The shady, but easy way. You can get a no-cd fix (although I recommend patching Black and White to first), but as y'all probably know, no-cd fixes (aka cracks) are notoriously shady and virus/trojan prone. Not that I would ever encourage pirating a game that isn't available anywhere for digital download and contains DRM that prevents play on modern operating systems, but there is a website dedicated to making tools that help backup old games (see ) that may prove helpful. Please note I take NO RESPONSIBILITY for the content of this website. It may or may not have helped me with my Black and White installation and I'm posting it here as a potential resource.
Also, since I'm in the business of posting copious amounts of links related to Black & White, here are links to the and add-ons. For future reference on running other old games on Windows 10, there's a pretty extensive list of games with DRM: see. Thanks, your advice got the game working for me. I still run into one problem though. It seems like there is an issue with sounds in the game.
After a short while of playing (about 10 mins) whenever a new sound should start playing, the game will lag for a few seconds. For example, when moving close to the worship center, the drum music will only start after a few seconds lag, or zooming way out will cause it too.
It keeps getting worse and worse until some sounds just stop playing and the game becomes unplayable with lag. Any ideas how to fix? Edit: Fixed it. If anyone else runs into this issue, copy over the Audio folder from the black & white cd into the install directory. So does it work? I bought B&W today, and I really hope it works on my windows 10.
Edit: Also, have you tried running it in compability mode for windows 7 or 8? Update 2: I panicked whilst waiting for game to arrive to I tried a pirated version. Installed it, absolutely no problems, worked flawlessly for me. If there is the the error that says you are missing IFC22.dll open the installation directory for Black and White, it should be there just copy it, and paste it over runblack.exe Else If there is the error that says you are missing p5dll.dll go here -and download the zip, extract it, and copy p5dll.dll to the installation directory.
I cannot seem to get this game to work on my windows 8. I've installed the patches, went through the whole process shown here: but still to no avail. Every time I try to start it I get 4 system error notifications: 'the program cannot start because IFC22.dll is missing from you computer' 'the program cannot start because the LHLogR.dll is missing from your computer' 'The program cannot start because the LHaudiodllR.dll is missing from your computer' 'the program cannot start because the LHmultiplayerdllR.dll is missing from you computer' Anyone know what to do about this?
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Some No-CD/Fixed EXE files work fine in Single Player mode but are detected to be modified when trying to play online. When this happens use the original EXE to play online, else you could find yourself banned from the game!.
When using Fixed Files make sure to use a Firewall which controls outgoing traffic, as some games call back to report the use of these modified files!. Some original games do not work when a certain application has been installed, like DAEMON Tools. In most cases using a No-CD or Fixed EXE will solve this problem!. Some Game Trainers are sometimes reported to be a Virus or Trojan, the most common is a keylogger called HotKeysHook or the file has been packed/protected with VMProtect or Themida and is recognized as Win32/Packed.VMProtect or Win32/Packed.Themida. In ALL cases this is a FALSE ALARM as NONE of the Game Trainers @ GCW contain known malicious code! More info in the!. If you have problems using a trainer in combination with Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 10 then make sure to run the trainer with Administrator rights and when needed in Windows XP or Windows 98 compatibility mode!.
ALL available trainers are for Single Player/Offline use ONLY! Don't try to use them online else your account can/will be banned/closed! Official 15.5 MB Official 9.6 MB Official 8.7 MB Caliber/CH File Archive 1.0 MB - Promo Trainer DEViANCE File Archive 1.9 MB Play Instructions:. Install the game - Full Installation.
Apply the official. Replace the original RUNBLACK.EXE file with the one from the File Archive. Play the Game!
LoA File Archive 463 KB MYTH File Archive 1.9 MB Play Instructions:. Install the game - Full Installation.
Apply the official. Replace the original RUNBLACK.EXE file with the one from the File Archive. Play the Game! RPG File Archive 2.6 MB Play Instructions:.
Install the Black & White - Full Installation. Install the Black & White: Creature Isle - Full Installation. Replace the original CREATUREISLE.EXE file with the one from the File Archive. Play the Game! Yogart/EyM File Archive 2.6 MB Play Instructions:. Install the game - Full Installation. Apply the official.
Replace the original RUNBLACK.EXE file with the one from the File Archive. Play the Game! MONTY File Archive 2.1 MB - unSafeDisc Play Instructions:. Install the game - Full Installation. Apply the official. Replace the original RUNBLACK.EXE file with the one from the File Archive. Play the Game!
RobSoft File Archive 2.1 MB Play Instructions:. Install the game - Full Installation. Apply the official. Replace the original RUNBLACK.EXE file with the one from the File Archive. Play the Game! File Archive 2.6 MB Play Instructions:.
Install the game - Full Installation. Apply the official.
Replace the original RUNBLACK.EXE file with the one from the File Archive. Play the Game! Reptile Patch Archive 97 KB Eddy Donkers File Archive 2.9 MB - Class I6Comp v0.2 Dutch Instructions CD-Copy Instructions:.
Create the following temporary directory:. TempDir#1: C: TEMP CD. TempDir#2: C: TEMP PATCH. Copy the full contents of the original CD to TempDir#1. Copy the following files from TempDir#1 to TempDir#2:. DATA1.CAB. DATA1.HDR.
DATA2.CAB. Remove the Read-Only protection from the above 3 files. Extract the File Archive to TempDir#2.
Extract the I6COMP.EXE from the I6Comp v0.2 archive to TempDir#2. Open a DOS-Box, CD to TempDir#2 and execute:.
i6comp r DATA2.CAB RUNBLACK.EXE This replaces the original RUNBLACK.EXE with the Fixed Execxutable. Copy the following files back from TempDir#2 to TempDir#1:. DATA1.CAB. DATA1.HDR. DATA2.CAB.
Burn the contents of TempDir#1 to a CD-R using this CD-Label: BNW. Remove/Clear the TempDir#1 & TempDir#2 directories. Play the game!
TimB File Archive #1 1 KB File Archive #2 1.8 MB - zIP/MYTH/DEViANCE I6Comp v0.2 Archive CD-Copy Instructions:. Create the following temporary directory:. TempDir: C: TEMP CD. Copy the full contents of the original CD to TempDir. Extract File Archive #1 to TempDir. Extract File Archive #2 to TempDir. Extract the I6COMP.EXE from the I6Comp v0.2 Archive to TempDir.
Execute BNWUK.BAT from the TempDir to replace the game executable in the installation files. The batch script will remove the obsolete files!. Burn the contents of TempDir to a CD-R and use the same CD-Label as the original CD.
Remove/Clear the TempDir. Play the game!
File Archive 1.8 MB I6Comp v1.03 CD-Copy Instructions:. Create the following temporary directory:. TempDir: C: TEMP CD. Copy the full contents of the original CD to TempDir. Extract the File Archive to TempDir.
Extract the I6COMP.EXE from the I6Comp v1.03 archive to TempDir. Execute BNWSP.BAT from the TempDir to replace the game executable in the installation files. The batch script will remove the obsolete files!. Burn the contents of TempDir to a CD-R and use the same CD-Label as the original CD. Remove/Clear the TempDir. Play the game!
Trojin & BML Patch Archive 7 KB This registry patch avoids that your IP Address will be logged by a L ionheads server. They will ban your IP Address and inform your ISP if you are playing the game from a backup CD! ZIP/MYTH/DEViANCE File Archive 2.5 MB Play Instructions:. Install the game - Full Installation. Replace the original RUNBLACK.EXE file with the one from the File Archive.
Play the Game! Class File Archive 2.9 MB Play Instructions:.
Install the game - Full Installation. Replace the original RUNBLACK.EXE file with the one from the File Archive. Play the Game!