MisterRavenicus: Both my keyboard and mouse are Logitech, is there anyway I can disable them both and then somehow re-activate them without a mouse or keyboard, after starting the game? Or is the issue Logitech things being active at all while the game is running?

YingJanshi: Just bought it on sale. Was looking forward to this as well. And...same problem. Load it up, changes my resolution to 640x480 and then doesn't load. Have messed with all of the Compatibility options (got it to stop changing resolution), but it still won't load.

Have a Win 8 x64 system. And a Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a way to disable it. (There is no system tray on Win 8 as was suggested earlier.)

Anyone else able to get it to work on Win 8?

[EDIT] Okay, I've tried all of the Compatibility options. None of them work. As far as I know I don't have any Logitech software running for my mouse or keyboard. When I try to run it, it will show up in the task manager.

Grintiff: UPDATE: Found a fix. I just closed the Gamestop App by sheer chance -it had finished downloading a game I purchased there a couple of years ago-, which is an application they use for Impulse Driven games -Gamestop's digital download service- and everything works perfectly fine now!!

It was obviously the culprit because I was trying to play the game over and over again and had Gamestop App visible in a window (not only a background process) but since it hadn't finished downloading I didn't close it and never thought it could cause that.

Thing is, realised the download had finished and decided to close the Gamestop App. So I returned to my previous task, which was getting this game to run. And it worked at the first try without me doing anything once the Gamestop App wasn't there anymore!

I was feeling desperate and about to ask for a refund. But the game runs on Windows 8.1 Update 1 without a hitch, at least for me. Uninstalling Gamestop App now, I don't need it anymore.

EDIT: Remember to add the -w line to the target option after creating a shortcut to the game, so you can play it in windowed mode. It should look similar to this: "C:\GOG Games\King of Dragon Pass\KoDP.exe" -w

Enjoy this wonderful game.

gamesfreak64: thanx, i tried it just a minute ago :
unfortunately it did not work on my win XP 32 bits ServicePack 3
I also tried the usual stuff: make a profile in the nvidia and disable stuff, bit by bit then retrying, all to no avail, also tried all the compatibility settings, nothing works.

It switches to 640x480 at 60 hz then it 'dies' alt tab to taskmanagers shows the kodp process of kodp
killing it restored the resolution switching it back to the default 1024x768 at 85hz
So i guess its back to the drawingboard and i will have to try something else.
Most of the older games work without a problem, HOMM 3 complete works without having to 'play' with any settings
so i hope i will find a working solution.
I bought the game yesterday during the action so it was cheaper, but i would like to see it work :D
i am curious about the game :D

Colderslave: Been trying all those tips attempting to make this wonderful game run on my Win 8.1 tablet, but no luck though.

Gydion: Also read through this thread. The game engine does not like any number of programs running in the background.

gamesfreak64: okay, so i should try and 'shoot off' some background programs?
well i still use my XP cause it accepts a lot of old retail games aswell, i do have win 7 but thats 64 bit.

Gydion: Still worth a try disabling KAV & MBAM. I don't remember having issues running it on my XP SP3 machine. It wouldn't hurt shooting GOG a support ticket. Perhaps there's a known issue with your setup?

The game runs just fine on win 7 x64 by the way.