I thought it was interesting when Tool designed their lyrics for Lateralus to the Fibonacci Sequence. While I don't think this had any weight of the harmony of the song and why it's such a powerful song, I think it added a level of complexity that I greatly enjoy in their songs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralus_(song)

Also I believe the final thing I had to do was go to the graphic options in game and deselect everything and run in 800x600. The 800x600 was key as it would crash at higher resolutions.

Here's what I did, tell me if this works or if it's a bust. I clearly remember hitting a wall for a while before I discovered how to get it to run without crashing.

This is working on a Windows 7 64-bit PC with an ATI gfx card.

Assuming you have installed the DK2 and have a shortcut to the DKII.exe (otherwise make a shortcut to this)
Then right-click open up properties.


In compatibility add these settings:
Run in Windows 2000
(Unchecked) Run in 256 Colors
(Unchecked) Run in 640 x 480 screen res
(Checked) Disable visual themes
(Checked) Disable desktop composition
(Checked) Disable display scaling on high DPI settings
(Checked) Run program as admin.


Then in the registry you need to go:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software->Bullfrog Productions Ltd->Dungeon Keeper II->Configuration->Video
EngineID=4
ScreenHardware3D=0 (disables hardware acceleration)


The registry stuff did the trick for me. Also I didn't patch any of the non-bullfrog ones, I used whatever the last bullfrog patch was.


This website helped with installation: http://404forums.net/archive/index.php/t-4459.html


Tell me if this helped you at all. If it didn't then tell me the error you get and it might remind me if I forgot to mention anything.

It was for me too, it would always crash whenever I clicked on notifications. Anyways I'm still at work but probably in an hour I should be able to send you guys what I did :)

Drogo, I was able to get DK2 working on my Win7 Machine after countless hours of messing with settings. I can tell you how to do it once I get home, but from what I remember it involved setting up the right properties on the shortcut and then modifying a specific registry key in the games registry folder, related to the graphics, to get it to run properly. Anyways, PM me or reply to this if you are interested. DK2 is so great.

Holy crap! Are you telling me I don't have to rewind DVDs!! I have been using one of these for years! http://www.amazon.com/DVD-Rewinder/dp/B000NK7E7Y

Seriously, why do all smart/knowledgeable people have to write their equations on windows with markers!! We invented paper so we wouldn't have to write on surfaces that don't save well!

I read an article that expressed similar feelings. This is how he described your anguish. http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris?currentPage=all I agree with you both.

"McAllister explains what NaCl is useful for" Cookies, brownies, Tortilla chips... with guac.... mmmm

Android is becoming more open with each update. If you look at some of Gingerbread's new features, they allow for more developers to code the way they want to, specifically you can now write a Android application completely in C and C++. The NDK has become much more evolved and allows for greater access to Google's Android. Chris Pruett has a great article on what Google has done with this latest update, particularly with the NDK. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/01/gingerbread-ndk-awesomeness.html

The graph of George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" is interesting as well. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=ass%2Cballs%2Ccocksucker%2Ccunt%2Cfuck%2Cmotherfucker%2Cpiss%2Cshit%2Ctits&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

"Must have missed it "

The article states they have only recently deployed one with two more to be deployed in the coming months. This is probably why you didn't see it.