i got still life thankfully on sale 99 cents. but when i try to run it the game will run a few seconds then go back to windows 11 (not crash). no matter how many times i click on the game. tried compatibility settings and nothing. i tried using the workound to get the game to play windowed and nothing.

it looks like the taskbar is crashing every time the game goes out to windows. i am so sick and #*$%ing tired of the piece of garbage taskbar in windows 11.

UPDATE got the game working the same way you can fix the taskbar crashing all the time. just change the setting to it only appears on the main screen and the game no longer "crashes" to windows.

Well, I have that problem that everybody seems to have. When I come to the cutscene in the morgue the game freezes at one point or another. I have tried the fixes that have been proposed on the forum, i.e. running the game in older compatibily modes, but none of them works - not even the more hardcore variants that have been suggested (which, by the way, are already there when installing the game). I would be eternally grateful if anyone finds a way to run this game on Windows 11. Otherwise I would be interested in buying any 15 year old Compaq machines that y'all have ;)

TO ALL OF YOU HAVING PROBLEMS WITH LAUNCHING THIS GAME ON WINDOWS 11:
The solution is really simple: just use DXWnd (in full screen mode).
Everything works and I completed the game!

Also, if vsync is not working (speech animations are too fast) you can fix it using the d3d8to9 DLL.

For more information please check the Still Life dedicated page on PCGamingWiki website.

You could also try to install the RAD Video Tools, that fixed the crashes in cutscenes for me.
I unfortunately cannot post links, just search for radgametools.
If you additionally use a program like rivatuner to lock the FPS to 30, the animations are fine too.
:)