Sorry to resurrect an age old issue (maybe). I've trawled through the various support and Ultima forums, been on other sites and still no closer to getting this to start.

I have manually adjusted options.ini after a clean fresh install (and 1.19h update) to D3D and various good options, and trying running u9.exe in Admin mode, but nothing happens. I get the washing machine mouse pointer and nothing, no game start , not even a black screen.

with taskmanager open, I can see that u9.exe appears in the process list for about 5 seconds, then disappears.

RUnning Windows 7 64 bit
game set to D3D at 1280 x 768 16 bit textures.
No unusual patching besides 1.19h

I vaguely remember getting this game to run some time ago without a gog install (i had the CD's) and some fiddling.

Can any one help, or shed some light on what is happening..did this happen to you?

Thanks in advance

I know that this doesn't help too much, but I can confirm that I've run it on Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and that it currently runs on Windows 10 64 bit. I've only run it on Nvidia hardware in recent years, so I can't confirm anything for AMD.

I don't do anything special. I didn't need to run as Administrator, or anything like that. I run Beautiful Britania, 1.19H, and maybe the dialog fix patch.

Have you tried running at 640x480x32?

Also, I believe the GOG version comes with a Glide wrapper of some kind. Have you tried it in Glide mode instead of D3D? I use D3D, but this game always liked Glide better originally.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Thank you though, I looked into those things, I too installed 1.19H and BB....in the end I needed to run as admin and/ or compatibilty for windows 98/me

Can someone explain to me how they are getting this game running in D3D with the GOG version? If I try to switch it to D3D in the options.ini, the game simply will not run. It has error messages upon start up. I have even tried disabling mipmaps or chromakey. Basically any extra visual options which could be selected, I disabled, and it still does not load in D3D. I really want someone to give a detail explanation of how they have the game files set so it works in D3D. I'm using Win10 64bit. Can you help by showing the correctly set relevant sections of options.ini or anywhere/anything else which needs to be set so this game works in D3D? I am trying to make the game work in correct aspect ratio in a 16:9 resolution like 1080p and with Glide version (which is the only one that loads the game for me) it is stretched. Even using the hex editing method of u9.exe like written on WSGF does not work correctly in the Glide version and the game is still stretched. Therefore I'm trying to get D3D version working and it simply doesn't. Help would be appreciated by anyone who got this working correctly.