kvdm16@hotmail.com: Can anyone who has windows 11 can help me get past this error? so far the solutions i have seen doesn't work, or i am too dumb to figure out the solutions.
heizusan: I know this is a bit of a necro-post. But I want to post this here for anybody else having this issue. I also had it.
I did *not* need to do any huge onerous thing like futzing with my NVidia settings, or uninstalling/reinstalling. A very simple fix for most older windows games is to use dgVoodoo (
http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/)).
1) Download the main zip & unzip somewhere you know to find it. There is a quick start "web page" in there that explains the rest, but I'll put it here, too.
2) Find the executable for your game (in GOG, click the application settings button at the top, Manage Installation -> Open Directory).
3) Copy everything from dgVoodoo/3Dfx/x86 and dgVoodoo/MS/x86 into the game's directory.
4) Click Play. Should work, now.
Why this works/what this is doing:
This game - like many from its era - relied on either 3DFx Glide, or older no longer valid versions of DirectX. dgVoodoo provides libraries that "emulate" these older graphics libraries, by taking the calls to them, and translating them into calls to the modern DirectX libraries. The games were crashing because they are trying to use technologies that either no longer exist, or no longer work.
This worked perfectly. Thank you for this!