Vista, 64bit, and the somehow confusing nature of it.

HepcatMerkin · Untrained Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 3

Thanks for the tips, Charonte

I've disabled UAC and unblocked Arcanum.exe from the DEP list of things to block, but it doesn't seem to be working, still. Just eating up my CPU% and not actually running anything; I'm going to try to reinstall now that UAC is off and see if that helps.

Fun fact: it's CPU usage is going from about 70-90%, but the actual memory it uses seems to be going down--it started at about 2000K, but now it's down to 868K.

Another option: I ripped the images from my original CD's and installed from those; would that have anything to do with this? If so, I may just have to wait til I'm back in Texas where the original CDs actually are. Lame.

Charonte · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject:

Shouldn't do unless you weren't using a NoCD crack, which now that I think of it is a pretty common cause of symptoms like yours.

Arcanum being Archaic as it is, I wouldn't have thought it would matter but you never know.

HepcatMerkin · Untrained Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 3

Gotcha; I'll correct for that and get back to y'all. Thanks again for the help!

Burress · Untrained Joined: 08 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

I am using Vista 64 bit and the video sequences and gameworld are not displaying. So after character creation I can hear the intro video playing but can only see a black screen. After I click through it, then I see the interface frame with a black center where the gameworld should be, though virgil and my character's text displays on it. All of the previous advice in this thread has not been successful. Any ideas on how to get the game displaying properly?