Choosername: Nice :) been waiting for this. Thanks!

Crosmando: Urrrgh, just tried this new version and I'm getting all messed up colors, in both the movies and main menu, basically impossible to make anything out

CrowTRobo: Just the installer was updated and not the actual game data, correct? I haven't played it yet but have downloaded it and will run it via WINE - so I don't care about Win 7 & 8 support. :)

Nirth: I found an old no-cd fix for this game that have a readme regarding unknown command lines for this game. The author didn't specify the reason behind the flag "-e" but it was supposed to say something about Direct Draw so just out of curiousity I added it to a shortcut to "sntrm.exe" and not GOGLauncher.

Now the game is not lagging anymore, it runs as quick as it's supposed. I've done anymore testing, but does anyone know how I could possibly use this "-e" flag in the GOGLauncher? I would like to play with both so I can see if one of them is more stable.

I also found this: Sanitarium Error in Windows

A user there mentions this: Nirth: I tried this as well just out of curiousity and I was pleasantly surprised. The colour issue that is present in the game if you run "sntrm.exe" instead of GOGLauncher is gone. Something with DD issues regarding resolution in newer OSes but I'm no programmer.

Nirth: Like this?

"...\Sanitarium\GOGLauncher.exe -e GOGSANITARIUM" or "Sanitarium\GOGLauncher.exe GOGSANITARIUM -e"

I tried both. The former says "the doesn't exist" and the latter makes the game drop to low performance as soon as I move mouse regardless if I hold down the right click to move the character.

I noticed now that the with the "-e" flag the game constantly crashes at the end of every video and since I don't see how I can find out where they're (conveniently) at least I'm stuck again between constant crashes or constant drop in performance as soon as I move.

I keep reading other threads regarding crashing in this game and some people have tried two dinstict solutions: using background application that drain performance/use a lower performance in the in-game slider or disabling DirectDraw/Direct3D Acceleration. The last one, where can I do that? I usually have specific issues with DirectDraw games so maybe I could try with that.

timppu: Replying to an old message (since I just installed the game for the first time):

timppu: Do you see other movies ok in the game? If you mean the dialog by two asylum workers where one says to leave you be, I think you are not supposed to see any video there (only audio), as in you are asleep or unconscious while you hear them talking.

I could check if it is the same on my retail version (on an old PC).timppu: Windows 7 64bit on Lenovo ThinkPad T400 laptop:

At first I got an error that it can't run sntrm.exe, or somesuch, when I tried to launch the game.

But after I went to Sanitarium compatibility properties and enabled "Run as administrator" (all other compatibility options are disabled), the game seems to work fine, at least so far. In chapter 2, no other problems so far whatsoever.

Is that compatibility option supposed to be disabled?