Follow it exactly and you should be able to get the game to work without too much of a problem. It’s an old game; you’re gonna go through a little bit of a struggle to get it to work on modern systems.

The trick is that all graphics adapters deprecated the functionality needed by this graphics system. The last PCI graphics card I found that supports this game is an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX4000. Nothing above that worked. I could never find 64-bit drivers or any newer drivers than WinXP. So I couldn’t have the MX4000 installed in anything newer than XP. And the game won’t run on anything newer. It’s a shame.

Yes, you can install an MX4000 video adapter in Windows 10, but the only driver that will work is the standard Microsoft VGA driver. This will work for your desktop, albeit very slowly, but it does not support the direct graphics access this game needs.

So I have XP installed in a multi-boot system that has Win10, WinXP, and Ubuntu. Whenever you want to play the game, you have to boot XP.

The ancient motherboard (AM2+) in her computer literally blew up a few weeks ago (10/2022), and I spent the last few days moving this system to a new computer (socket LGA1155). That’s why I’m here. I was hoping someone figured out something better. Looks like this is still the only thing that works for me.

Sorry for the long post and good luck!