Bahrni
01-02-2008, 02:07 PM
I know there are other mentions of this problem in other thread, but I haven't seen any response that actually fixes the problem so I'm adding my own voice (politely) requesting some help.
I'm running Vista x64 and bought K&L through Steam. When launched I just get a blank screen, although the Steam overlay is available and the Live login stuff (which seems utterly redundant when its functionality is already provided by Steam, but that's another point). I've managed to enter the key I got from Steam, but that's it. The screen flickers sometimes and the intro/demo movie plays every so often, but otherwise nothing. I've disabled AnyDVD as EIDOS suggested (which is a pretty daft point for a STEAM purchase that DOESN'T COME ON CD/DVD) and disable Windows Desktop Management (goodbye pretty transparency) and still nothing happens. I haven't tried mucking about with the DirectX settings for audio as that doesn't seem to fix the problem for anyone discussing it either. I never actually get any kind of error message, but I have to end the task (when windows reports it doesn't repond) to get rid of it.
Has anyone in fact got this game to run on Vista x64? So far it seems a frustrating waste of my money. I have Oblivion, HL2, FSX, Tomb Raider Anniversary and even the notoriously fickle Crysis running fine on my machine and it seems that K&L is just appallingly badly programmed. Given the pretty graphics shots I foolishly assumed that it would at least be compatible with DirectX10 if not natively written for it, and thus would run under Windows Vista. If it involves disabling any more system components, I think it really should be labelled as XP only as having to disable assorted services and programs in Vista to get anywhere does not count as "working" in my book.
My system specs are:
Vista x64
Shuttle XPC SN25P
Nforce4 motherboard
8800GTS 320GB
2Gb 3200 RAM
All drivers are the latest available. If anyone HAS successfully managed to get this game to work under Vista x64, can they please reply with how? Any help gratefully received.
I'm running Vista x64 and bought K&L through Steam. When launched I just get a blank screen, although the Steam overlay is available and the Live login stuff (which seems utterly redundant when its functionality is already provided by Steam, but that's another point). I've managed to enter the key I got from Steam, but that's it. The screen flickers sometimes and the intro/demo movie plays every so often, but otherwise nothing. I've disabled AnyDVD as EIDOS suggested (which is a pretty daft point for a STEAM purchase that DOESN'T COME ON CD/DVD) and disable Windows Desktop Management (goodbye pretty transparency) and still nothing happens. I haven't tried mucking about with the DirectX settings for audio as that doesn't seem to fix the problem for anyone discussing it either. I never actually get any kind of error message, but I have to end the task (when windows reports it doesn't repond) to get rid of it.
Has anyone in fact got this game to run on Vista x64? So far it seems a frustrating waste of my money. I have Oblivion, HL2, FSX, Tomb Raider Anniversary and even the notoriously fickle Crysis running fine on my machine and it seems that K&L is just appallingly badly programmed. Given the pretty graphics shots I foolishly assumed that it would at least be compatible with DirectX10 if not natively written for it, and thus would run under Windows Vista. If it involves disabling any more system components, I think it really should be labelled as XP only as having to disable assorted services and programs in Vista to get anywhere does not count as "working" in my book.
My system specs are:
Vista x64
Shuttle XPC SN25P
Nforce4 motherboard
8800GTS 320GB
2Gb 3200 RAM
All drivers are the latest available. If anyone HAS successfully managed to get this game to work under Vista x64, can they please reply with how? Any help gratefully received.