Hmm.. that is something to think about. Let me go visit Newegg and see what they have.

I figured it would not work, most cool remakes don't.

Thank you for your help. I plan to get a new computer within a year so I'll make sure to keep watching this project. It's great and the only currently worked on Descent remake project I've found. I'll be around.

Thank you all for the help.

It's close. Now I can start up Descent2 and get to the start up screen. I can play with options, but when I try to play, it just closes, right after it shows all the new robots.

I am running windowed, and it also closes when I try to increase the windowed resolution to ...

I have SP4.

The Compatiblity mode appears on some .exe's but not this one...

When I right click on the program, I'm not getting a Compatiblity tab. Is that just for XP?

I figured it was my video card. Is there any .ini options that can lower or remove some advanced graphics settings to make it work for me?

I just patched to version 1.2.
I have the full version of Descent2.
I have Windows 2000 w/SP4 and all the updates.

The only thing I can think of is that my video card is pretty bad, a Kyro2 64mb. I played with some .ini file settings but with no luck. This is what I'm using:

-grabmouse
-sound22k ...

Hi,

I am running Windows 2000 and I am glad I found this remake for the game. I played it for years quite a while ago but now it doesn't work well on new systems.

I extracted D2X-XL into my \Descent2 folder and the game tries to start (I see a screen), then it goes away. Stderr.txt says:

Fatal ...