How to run Still Life under Windows 7/Vista UltimateStill life is a pretty decent, albit a bit dark, adventure game from 2005. As all games it runs fine on XP and like most games it fails to run on Vista (who cares) and Windows 7.
NOTE: I’m running Win7 64bit. With any luck this will not matter for 32bit users.
Googling around will give you a bunch of forum posts, but the general consensus is that you should try the 98 compatibility mode and if not then run it in XP. The problem is that the game either wont start, start and never progress past a black screen, will throw and error or else will hang after you start talking to the cop in the first scene. Turns out there is a simple way to make the game run perfectly (I’ve finished it and it ran nice and smooth, without a hitch).
As windows still hasn’t fixed some of the issues with compatibility mode, you cant just right click stilllife.exe and change the settings there. For some retarded reason you need to create a shortcut first (nice Microsoft, real nice). After this you need to do the following:
* Right click the shortcut, properties and select the compatibility tab.
* Change the program to run as WinNT 4.0 (not 98 or xp as these WON’T work).
* Then check the box ‘disable visual themes’.
* (Unnecessary?) Check the box ‘disable desktop composition’ (to ward off evil spirits).
* Lastly check the box to run this program as an admin (since windows still doesn’t and probably never can have a decent security infrastructure that would allow you to run programs and games without running them with admin rights).
* Apply and OK. Now you can run the game.
Have fun
I’ll post an update if the same settings apply for Post Mortem (prequel) and Still Life 2.
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