so my question is: did microsoft add a update to keep this game from playing. that happened on sherlock holmes the mystery of the mummy about 10 years ago. and put the update in a message and all we had to do was remove the update and the game started players again.
I remember that. Three games that I know of were affected (Omega Stone, Cameron Files 2, and Mystery of the Mummy).
Then Microsoft added the update to XP SP1 (12 years ago), and people couldn't remove it so easily.
I don't know if an update could have caused problems with Evil Under the Sun or not, but you can check your Windows Updates and see if there are any recent ones that were installed around the time the game stopped working.
Open Windows Update by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button. In the search box, type Update, and then, in the list of results, click Windows Update.
In the left pane, click View update history.