Descent 2 on WinXP help

[Six]

I'm having an odd problem getting D2 running on my machine, and 2 of my friends are running into the same problem, but we've gotten it running on several other machines no problem. I followed these instructions to the letter to get D2 working on my computer:

http://home.arcor.de/hbredel/Descent/De ... glish.html

When I try to launch the game with d2x-w32.exe, I get a black screen for a couple secs, then it just comes back to my desktop. If I set it to Win98 compatibility, it does the same thing, but leaves a d2x-w32 process running in my task manager. If I try to launch with d2x-gl.exe, my comp switches resolution to 640x480 and shows my desktop, but it's essentially locked up (no mouse) until I ctrl-alt-del to get back to my task manager and kill the application.

I've tried re-installing several times, and followed the instructions to the letter each time, and even got the latest d2x-w32 (1.4.26), and always get the same result. I'm running on a 1.8Ghz Athlon XP w/512MB RAM and an Nvidia GeForce2 MX card w/32MB RAM, so I don't think hardware is the issue.

Any ideas??? Thanks in advance.

[CDN_Merlin]

Change either your resolution or refresh rate in Windows and try again.

ALso, if you're trying "full screen" for D2x, then try going wo window mode or vice versa.

[BUBBALOU]

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[Six]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, but neither worked. I still get the same problem, even after trying those. Any other ideas? Thanks.

[Diedel]

Did you try the newest version of D2X-W32?

If so, try editing d2x.ini and putting a semicolon in front of the -fullscreen command to start D2X-W32 in windowed mode.

You may also want to create a fresh D2 install somewhere else on your HD and install D2X-W32 there.

And don't use the d2x.ini file from the hbredel web site.