Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist: “Score!”
That’s a fun game, too. I’d almost forgot about it!
Thanks again everybody. These suggestions are great!
Oops—sorry to bug y’all again.
Does anybody know if the full-version of Grim Fandango is Win2k-compatible? I downloaded the demo from the LucasArts website, and it mostly ran, but there were some graphics problems (some of the animations scrambled the screen) and it closes itself when I try to walk down the road. These may be limited to the demo, or the setup of my graphics drivers, but I don’t want to hunt down a game I won’t be able to play.
Thanks in advance.
I don’t know about the graphics, I will say that I’m having a real bitch of a time getting it to run on my computer (win98) which is why I didn’t suggest it. It’s a terrific game, BUT…
my problems are with the caching; my CDROM drive seems to be too fast for it, even with caching turned off. Causes all the speech to jump and makes it unplayable. Unfortunatly, copying it to my hard drive causes it to crash :(.
Tis a good thing I finished it back when I was on a P-75 
here are the requirements from lucasarts.com. (If I know how to link, I would)
Computer: 100% Windows 95/98 DirectX compatible computer required.
CPU: Pentium 133 or faster required.
Memory: 32MB or higher RAM required.
CD-ROM: Quad speed IDE or SCSI CD-ROM drive required.
Video Card: 2 MB PCI Graphics card required.
3D Acceleration: Optional 3D graphics support requires a 4MB PCI or AGP 3D accelerator.
Sound Card: 100% Windows 95/98 DirectX compatible 16-bit sound card required.
Input Device: 100% Windows 95/98 compatible keyboard required. Optional support for joysticks and gamepads.
DirectX: Microsoft DirectX 6.0 is included on the CD-ROM and must be installed to play Grim Fandango. Please refer to the DirectX section in this guide for more information about DirectX.
NOTE: Your system may require the ““latest”” Windows 95/98 drivers for your particular hardware.
Installation: Installation requires 30 MB free hard drive space. You should also allow for at least 100 MB of free hard drive space for the Windows swap file and saved games.
I never had any problem with it on my 98 machine with a 32 meg vid card. Don’t know if it has issues with w2k though.
Oh, be sure to check out Morrowind (www.elderscrolls.com) which is to be released May 2nd. I believe you were the one who commented on recently discovering it in my thread in MPSIMS.
Side query: Why did you get a new pc with Win2k?
Daoloth, I got win2000 because my 'puter didn’t come with an OS. A friend gave me his copy of Win2k because, after shelling out for the 'puter (did I assume it would come with some sort of OS? yes. Did I ask? no.) I couldn’t afford anything else right off the bat. Now, I’m just waiting for the worst of the bugs in XP to wear off (and the price to come down some more). Till then, W2k it is.
Max, my computer meets all the minimum requirements, except that it isn’t 95/98. The demo ran basically fine, except for the sudden abort-game and the aforementioned graphics errors (this wouldn’t make the game unplayable, IMO, just annoying.) For anyone who for some reason has the demo, all I can do is leave the Underground room, talk to the clown, and look at the car/fancy building (where Manny used to work?). If I try to go past that building, it self-destructs and closes the program (no error message). This may just be the end of the demo, I don’t know.