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General discussion (archive)New release: Dungeon Keeper 2(185 posts)(185 posts)
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Posted August 25, 2011
The Evil is back! Thanks to the sequel to the acclaimed Dungeon Keeper you can be even nastier.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/dungeon_keeper_2]Dungeon Keeper 2 is Bullfrog’s second take on the masterpiece blend of real-time strategy with elements of sim, RPG and first person action game. Once again you take the role of the main Bad Guy. You have to build an underground empire, set deadly traps, recruit armies of brainless minions, and show the good-natured (bleh!) heroes where their place is: six feet under! And with even greater selection of traps and monsters it's now easier than ever. So train your army well (or slap them into submission) to expand your evil empire from the undergrounds to the realms above.
Posted August 26, 2011
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rhinox: Snip
Yes, I did already. Still the same :( Thanks for help!
Posted August 26, 2011
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makr3la: ...
Turn UAC off before installing
Run the installer as an admin as before
Install in a directory outside of Program Files, I like C:\Games
Posted August 26, 2011
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Stuff: Snip
Done, but nothing helped me.
Also I tried another redownload, pc reboot and registry cleaning with CCleaner.

Thanks for help!
Posted August 26, 2011
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makr3la: ...
I assume your account is an administrator's account so the only suggestion I have now is to disconnect from the internet and disable your AV and Firewall program. Try the install. If no joy than I have no other suggestions from afar. It appears that something is blocking writes to the registry. . . =)

Don't forget to enable both the AV and Firewall. You may need to make the game.exe a trusted program in one or both programs if it installs. My Comodo firewall can be very aggressive about blocking disk writes during an install.

Edit: Also disable any anti-malware programs as they also may detect the registry write and block it. Usually they throw up an "Allow" dialog though.
Post edited August 26, 2011 by Stuff
Posted August 26, 2011
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Stuff: Solution
Woohoo! COMODO Firewall was the problem! :)

You are very kind and helpful person, thank you again!
Posted August 26, 2011
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makr3la: ...
You're welcome, glad I could help. Enjoy DK . . . =)
Posted August 27, 2011
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rhinox: You don't have access to the source code!?!?! OMG this is so wrong, so generally speaking it's the same god damn game that is out in the market without any fixes whatsoever. This is not the GoG I signed up for.
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DebugMode: The fuck? This isn't wrong, this is normal. No publisher gets the source, just the vanilla game files. GOG is already trying to do the best they can and also I really doubt that Bullfrog Productions still has the code and / or would create a patch for a 12 year old game.

Anyways...Here's an unofficial patch
http://keeperklan.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=15
No QA or testing before public release ?
Posted August 27, 2011
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Ryuji: No QA or testing before public release ?
I'm pretty sure they do QA and testing before. However, how many games getting released NEW nowadays with bugs one might expect to get caught in QA / testing? With new source code and an existing company behind it?

Bullfrog doesn't exist anymore, everyone involved with the development of DK2 in different departments / companies.
The source code probably isn't available even to EA anymore. Even if it would be, EA wouldn't hand it out - it's not that they sell the franchise to CD Projekt, but the rights to resell the game. Heck, even if the code would be available and EA handing it over, guess what and how much effort it would take to go through it, gaining just a basic understanding of what they did where and why, not even thinking about finding / eliminating bugs?

Don't know, but I'd consider this common sense. And I see an awful lot missing it.
Post edited August 27, 2011 by Siannah
Posted August 27, 2011
I remember a couple of years ago EA re-released the Command and Conquer games as part of its anniversary of the original game. With that release they made the original CnC and Red Alert work with modern systems. With CnC being a Westwood game which EA later brought, it wouldn't surprise me if they kept the source code for all their old games. So here is hoping that somewhere deep in the vaults at EA there is the code for DK2.
Posted August 27, 2011
WIndows 7 issues fix:


If you have problems playing DK2, edit the shortcut by adding these switchers "-softwarefilter -32bitdisplay"


To non-tech folks - right-click on DK2 shortcut on your desktop, open Properties, then change "Target" to show (....)\Dungeon Keeper II\dkII.exe" -softwarefilter -32bitdisplay


Worked for me on Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Posted August 27, 2011
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Ryuji: No QA or testing before public release ?
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Siannah: I'm pretty sure they do QA and testing before. However, how many games getting released NEW nowadays with bugs one might expect to get caught in QA / testing? With new source code and an existing company behind it?

Bullfrog doesn't exist anymore, everyone involved with the development of DK2 in different departments / companies.
The source code probably isn't available even to EA anymore. Even if it would be, EA wouldn't hand it out - it's not that they sell the franchise to CD Projekt, but the rights to resell the game. Heck, even if the code would be available and EA handing it over, guess what and how much effort it would take to go through it, gaining just a basic understanding of what they did where and why, not even thinking about finding / eliminating bugs?

Don't know, but I'd consider this common sense. And I see an awful lot missing it.
So you telling me it was too difficult to startup dkii.exe on two machines one with ati card in and one with nvidia, both windows 7 64x ?

It's got nothing todo with bullfrog nor ea, it's as simple as starting the "gog dk2" few times on different builds as above mentioned and just playing 1 or 2 missions.

No you can't say you need 20+ pc's, we have VMs nowadays which makes testing for different OSes a lot easier. Those methods is the very basic of testing and qa apart from code review by yourself and by your peer(s).

Those "bugs" wasn't hard to find or hidden. I quite agree that no release is 100% bug free, but seriously when you set something out that can't even start and it's not just one or two pcs it's quite obvious that someone slipped up.

This tells me that the very basic of just executing the executable on at least say windows 7 64x on at least nvidia and ati was probably not done and it was let out with assumption that it will just work.

In the end assumption is a bad thing to do.
Post edited August 27, 2011 by Ryuji
Posted August 27, 2011
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Ryuji: This tells me that the very basic of just executing the executable on at least say windows 7 64x on at least nvidia and ati was probably not done and it was let out with assumption that it will just work.
I doubt it. There's no mention of supporting Windows 7 on the gamecard.
Posted August 27, 2011
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Vestin: (snipsnips)
I doubt it. There's no mention of supporting Windows 7 on the gamecard.
There was when the game was released.

http://static05.gog.com/upload/forum/2011/08/54dfb748685b0ddec47afb66fc0fb255fd749d05.jpg

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http://www.gog.com/en/forum/dungeon_keeper/oh_my_god_gog_this_is_your_answer
Posted August 27, 2011
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Vestin: (snipsnips)
I doubt it. There's no mention of supporting Windows 7 on the gamecard.
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senbon: There was when the game was released.

http://static05.gog.com/upload/forum/2011/08/54dfb748685b0ddec47afb66fc0fb255fd749d05.jpg

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http://www.gog.com/en/forum/dungeon_keeper/oh_my_god_gog_this_is_your_answer
Oh my...
Posted August 27, 2011
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Ryuji: In the end assumption is a bad thing to do.
Well then I'd guess it's a good thing you point out facts instead of assumptions.... oh, wait.
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